Case of complex labor : with remarks, etc. / reported by Gustavus L. Simmons.

  • Simmons, Gustavus L. (Gustavus Lincoln), 1832-1910.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Case of complex labor : with remarks, etc. / reported by Gustavus L. Simmons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    IHSTTIFtOZDTTaTOiFf'Sr- To ilie Medical Profession: Since the fatal termination of the following case, various rumors, affecting the professional reputation of the physicians in attendance, have heen rife in the community. Had these been confined to the gossip of the neighborhood, the writer would not have deemed i,t necessary on his part to give publicity (in this manner) to the cir- cumstances attending the complication; but, unfortunately for the honor of the profession, the petty jealousies which so often disgrace it in newly-settled communities were at work, and these grasped at the case as affording a basis of attack on which to compass the ruin of rival practitioners. The subject of the accident was a lady of talent and beauty; be- loved by all who had the honor of her acquaintance—with the bright- est hopes of the future, and an enviable social position, the tidings of her death came like the stroke of a thunderbolt to her hosts of friends, and excited in their minds a peculiar interest as regarded the causes for such a sudden desolation of a happy household. The insinua-