A letter to Dr. Edward Rigby [on complicated labour] / [James Hamilton].

  • Hamilton, James, 1767-1839
Date:
1837]
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Credit: A letter to Dr. Edward Rigby [on complicated labour] / [James Hamilton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the editor of the London Medical Gazette, that “ I have endeavoured to detract from the merit of vour father’s valuable and well known %j Essay,” I can dispose of in a very few words. For above forty years, I have stated, in lecturing, as already mentioned, “ that Dr Rigby had the merit of directing the attention of practitioners to those alarming cases of uterine haemorrhagyin the latter months of pregnancy,”—a testimony in his favour which I do not retract. But, instead of admitting that “ the rules for the treatment of such cases which he has laid down in his Essay, are the most accurate, simple and valu¬ able, which have been published,” I must de¬ clare my conviction, that in so far as they de¬ viate from the rules previously published by Dr Smellie, they have led to very serious errors in practice. In conclusion, I must express my sincere re¬ gret at your having forced me into this discus¬ sion, and I have no doubt, that before many months elapse, you will participate in this sen-