Observations on Mr. Simmons's Detection, &c. &c. : with a defence of the Cesarean operation, derived from authorities, &c. &c., a description of the female pelvis, an examination of Dr. Osborn's opinions, relative to embryulcia, and an account of the method of delivery by embryotomy / by John Hull.

  • Hull, John, 1761?-1843.
Date:
[1799?]
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Credit: Observations on Mr. Simmons's Detection, &c. &c. : with a defence of the Cesarean operation, derived from authorities, &c. &c., a description of the female pelvis, an examination of Dr. Osborn's opinions, relative to embryulcia, and an account of the method of delivery by embryotomy / by John Hull. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    but to my being better employed. And, if you should lay particular stress upon any feet, argu- ment, or opinion, which I have happened to overlook, or to treat as of little consequence, you will, perhaps, have the goodness to point it out to me, and I will promise to consider it more fully hereafter. At page 102 of your Detection, you make this declaration, “ 1 used as much delicacy towards Dr. Hull as was practicable, for I cautiously abstained from mentioning his name ; and so little appear- ance did my pamphlet convey of a personal at- tack, that people in general who read it here, did not suppose that it was aimed at any individual.'* Upon this passage I have to offer a few remarks: ist. You would have shewn greater delicacy, if you had been less clamorous upon the subject, immediately after the operation, and had de- ferred advertising your intended publication, till it was ready for the press. The Operation, to which you have alluded as “ a late oc- currence, was performed on the 24th of September, 1798; your advertisement ap- peared in Wheeler’s Manchester Chro- nicle, on the sixth of October, and your book was not in the press till after the 5th of Novem- ber. Still more delicacy would have been mani-