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.
Date:
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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    of pregnancy, and accompanied by Hooding and the usual signs of parturition. The discharge of the menstruous fluid after long retention, might simulate some of the symptoms of recent delivery; but many of them, and those the most decisive, would be absent; whereas, after delivery, and particularly of a first child, almost all would be found to concur. But the discovery of such a concurrence of symptoms must depend altogether on the period of time, at which the examination is made. In some examinations instituted in France at the end of a month, no evidence could be detected, though the moral circumstances were decisive. It was long since observed by Zacchaeus, that the proofs of delivery were uncertain after the 10th day. After the 4th or 5th they become less dis- tinct, gradually diminishing, and at the end of a fortnight are indecisive. There are several other subjects of investiga- tion connected with Infanticide of an interesting and delicate nature ; but the length to which this dissertation has already extended, forbids me to enter upon the discussion of them. FINIS.