Search : stillborn, elements, art, revolution, courage, homœopathy.

Date:
1866
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Credit: Search : stillborn, elements, art, revolution, courage, homœopathy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ It is worthy of remark, that the mor- tality among both mothers and children is greatest when assistance was given.”* This refers to statistics of one kind of inal- presentation. Information, supposed to be obtained by exa- mination, is very uncertain : authors upon authors describe mistakes which are liable to be, and have been, made even by experienced men. Dr. R. Lee, whose skill and experience few will care to impugn, with his usual candour relates two in- stances, when he completely mistook the signs to such an extent as to prepare for a very hazardous operation — as it proved, quite needlessly. On one of these occasions Dr. H. Davies was also present, and likewise completely deceived.f Dr. R. Lee has exposed the mental degradation and bodily injury inflicted upon many ladies, by the prac- tices of several fashionable doctors in the present day : some of the wretched victims, nevertheless, become so infatuated with their destroyers, as actually to tout for fresh sacrifices among their young married acquaintances! If nervous women, or their more nervous hus- bands, must pin their faith upon a lady’s doctor, at least let them endeavour to find, if they can, * Dr. Churchill, p. 411. f Vide Dr. R. Lee, “ Clin. Mid.” p. 136.