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 probabilities of abortion taking place at different periods of pregnancy, &c., &c., with select cases and formulae / By Augustus Bozzi Granville.

  • Granville, A. B. (Augustus Bozzi), 1783-1872.
Date:
1819
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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 probabilities of abortion taking place at different periods of pregnancy, &c., &c., with select cases and formulae / By Augustus Bozzi Granville. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    will not fail to excite considerable surprise— and the more so, when it is observed that^ from all that can be learned by the inspection of my register, the unpleasant consequences of abor- tion^ even where it has occurred repeatedly in the same individual^ appear to have been but few, and those, comparatively speaking, of no great importance—and not particularly intiuen- cyig the exercise of those functions, which essentially characterize the female sex. The fever, commonly distinguished by the ap¬ pellation of puerperal^ is unfortunately of so frequent occurrence amongst the poorer classes of lying-in women, that it could not be passed unnoticed. It will be found, by a comparison of statements, that the results in the practice of the Dispensary have been most favourable. The assistance which the charity afibrds to poor married women, during their confinement, is not the only benefit the female sex derives from its institution ; many and complicated are the diseases to which they are exclusively sub-