A medico-legal essay on infanticide : translated from the author's Latin inaugural dissertation, composed on that subject, and submitted to the Faculty of Medicine in Edinburgh, preparatory to receiving the degree of M.D. in the present year / by Robert Arrowsmith.

  • Arrowsmith, Robert.
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1828
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Credit: A medico-legal essay on infanticide : translated from the author's Latin inaugural dissertation, composed on that subject, and submitted to the Faculty of Medicine in Edinburgh, preparatory to receiving the degree of M.D. in the present year / by Robert Arrowsmith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    more particularly if the funis be cut. The effects of the absence of the ligature of the umbilical cord have been a fruitful source of controversy, and men* of equal learning, judgment, and experience, have ranged themselves on opposite sides in it. Capu- ron* has reasoned much to prove that no positive conclusion can be formed respecting it, and adds, from his own experience, that repeatedly in vi- gorous plethoric children he has divided the funis, and deferred the application of the ligature for some time. The haemorrhage has spontaneously subsided. The same has happened in feeble chil- dren. And he concludes by saying, that he should regard the haemorrhage, which had caused death after birth, as the effect, not of the omission of the ligature, but of the obstacles which had impeded or suppressed the respiration and pulmonary cir- culation. The case of Foder^ furnishes a com- plete refutation of Capuron’s assertion (p. 368,^) that the blood never flows abundantly when the respiration is free.* I may remark that I have * Commentatio de Infantum nuper natorum Umbilico et Pul- Dionibus. Auctore G. F. Daniel, Hallae, 1780, 12mo; and Bulletin de la Societe Medicale d’Emulation, 1809; and Manuel d’Autopsie Cadaverique, traduit par C. C. H. Marc. p. 99. ® La Medecine L^giJe relative a I’Art des Accoucbemens, p. 364;. ® Vol, iv. p. 316. ^ Hutchinson (p. 86.) bas a case in point also, but there is an expression in the relation of it, as to the separation of the funis, not very comprehensible.