Aveling, James Hobson (1828–1892)

TL;DR: Robert Lawson Tait's bold, innovative surgical techniques led to a significant decrease in surgical mortality, and his prescient, aggressive approach was at the forefront of changes in the practice of obstetrics, which resulted in a marked decrease in maternal morbidity and mortality.

TL;DR: This book is essentially a compilation of articles by the author, originally published over the years since 1965 in the British Journal of Anaesthesia .

TL;DR: The history of fetal heart rate monitoring is a combination of progress in both biomedical technique and obstetrics at the same time, and technical developments range from the first obstetric stethoscopes of around 1800 to the modern computer-operated cardiotocograph evaluation systems of the third-generation obstetric monitoring equipment.