An essay upon the spontaneous evolution of the foetus ... / By John Kelly, M.D.

  • Kelly, John, M.D., active 1816.
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1816
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Credit: An essay upon the spontaneous evolution of the foetus ... / By John Kelly, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to the mere occurrence of the evolution, with* out any regard to its consequences. Doctor Douglas was, I believe, the next who appeared in print upon this subject. He denies the evolution of the foetus, after the manner of Doctor Denman, and maintains that the child is simply expelled in a doubled state. That a child small, dead, and putrid may be forced into the world by the natural efforts (be the presentation as it may) nobody will deny: and, so far as I can perceive, the cases related by Doctor Douglas amount to no more than this; for while he admits that these circum¬ stances would favour the delivery of the woman he does not say that the cases to which he alludes, as occurring under his own eye, were of a different description. He only says that he has seen children pushed through the pelvis in a doubled state, when the arm presented; and, hence, infers that full grown children would always be expelled, in this way, if nature was not molested. Relying, implicitly, upon the accuracy of Doctor Denman’s observations, and not less upon