A report of the practice of midwifery, at the Westminster General Dispensary during 1818 : including new classifications of labours, abortions, female complaints, and the diseases of children, with computations on the mortality among lying-in women and children, and the probability of abortion taking place at different periods of pregnancy, &c., by A.B. Granville ... 8vo, pp. 220, 1819.

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[1820]
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Credit: A report of the practice of midwifery, at the Westminster General Dispensary during 1818 : including new classifications of labours, abortions, female complaints, and the diseases of children, with computations on the mortality among lying-in women and children, and the probability of abortion taking place at different periods of pregnancy, &c., by A.B. Granville ... 8vo, pp. 220, 1819. 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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    A Report of the Practice of Midwifery, at the Westminster General Dispensary, during ISIS; including new Classificat ions of Labours, Abortions, I'emale Complaints, and the Diseases of Children: ivilh Computations on the Mortality among Lying-in Women and Chil- dren, and the probability of Abortion talcing place at different Pe- riods of Pregnancy, §c. By A. B. Granville, m,d. f.k.s. r.L.s. M.it.i. Physician-in-Ordinary to his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, Physician-Accoucheur to the Westminster General Dispensary, &c. Sto. pp. 220. 18 i£>. There is hardly any subject, however dull and barren to the generality of persons, that may not become the source of inter- i esting speculations and various useful inferences to a man of gfenius. Circumstances apparently the most trivial have given birth to some of the grandest views in science, as well as to many of the finest productions in the belles-lettres. It should not, therefore, excite surprise, that the practice in the midwifery department of a Public Dispensary for one year, has here been made the basis of a work, which comprises numerous original statements of remarkable interest to the politician, as well as to the practitioner of medicine. Several good reports of a similar kind had certainly been already produced, but they left much to be regarded by more comprehensive views of the subject in itself, aS well as of its relations to others of more or Jess im- portance to our social interests. Some of the statistical ac- counts here adduced by Dr. Granville present the principles of a series of information of considerable value to those who study the regulations of societies for granting annuities on the lives of individuals, or on the probability of that of their existing or expected progeny, of which we shall give a concise statement, at the same time that we point out what is more expressly inte- resting to the medical practitioner. An Introduction comprises some very pertinent and good remarks on the utility of public dispensaries, and on the relative value of those establishments to hospitals in which sick persons are admitted as residents; a chronological list of the several dispensaries established in the metropolis, with a particular ac- count of the IVestminster General institution of this kind ; and a view of the series of matters treated of in the body of the work. The first section commences with some considerations on Parturition, which furnish the author with an opportunity for