Observations on the artificial dilatation of the mouth of the womb during labour, and upon instrumental delivery, &c. &c. / by Robert Collins.

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[1837?]
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Credit: Observations on the artificial dilatation of the mouth of the womb during labour, and upon instrumental delivery, &c. &c. / by Robert Collins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    M. Treviranus on organized Bodies, fyc. subsequent to birth except in very few instances, compara- tively speaking, a consequence of injury arising from protracted labour, as the result of our Hospital demonstrates; thus of the total number dying (284) previous to the mother leaving the institution, the labour in two hundred and forty-six did not exceed twelve hours. These truths are all clearly shewn in the tables published by me, and markedly exhibit the great utility of registering simple facts, which, if accumulated sufficiently overpower all theory or argument opposed, and can alone form the basis of sound reasoning. I trust, in medical science the period is not remote, when statements made unsupported by proof, will be looked upon as more calculated to mislead than direct; which, indeed, would be a glorious era in the history of medicine, as a speculative theory has ever been the hot-bed of uncertainty in the physician’s cure. Art. VI.— On the organized Bodies found in the seminal Fluid of Animals,and their Analogy to the Pollen of Plants. By G. R. Treviranus. The following interesting paper is taken from the fifth volume of Tiedemann and Treviranus’s Physiological Journal. Like every thing coming from its illustrious author, it bears abundant marks of accurate observation and deep reflection ; and we have very little doubt that Treviranus will ultimately succeed in establishing the very curious and remarkable analogy which he has been the first to observe and investigate. “Although the beings termed seminal animalcules,have been frequently made the subject of observation for the last hundred and fifty years, the question as to their peculiar nature has never yet been satisfactorily answered. Since the abandonment of the opinions of Leeuwenhoek, who maintained that they were the germs of the embryos, they have been generally looked upon