Remarks on the ineffective state of the practice of physic in Great Britain; with proposals for its future regulation and improvement, and the resolutions of the members of the Benevolent Medical Society of Lincolnshire / [Edward Harrison].

  • Harrison, Edward, 1759-1838
Date:
1806
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Credit: Remarks on the ineffective state of the practice of physic in Great Britain; with proposals for its future regulation and improvement, and the resolutions of the members of the Benevolent Medical Society of Lincolnshire / [Edward Harrison]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for tills purpose, were made with equal ignorance and brutality. The poor mother, terribly la- cerated by such violent outrage, died a martyr to the insutbciency of Iier attendant. In the other case, a stout healthy woman, rather ad- vanned in life, was taken in labour of her first child. The labour was likely to be tedious, the foetus being of an uncommon size. Every tiling, however, was proceeding in the common way, though slowly, and the mother’s strength had not sufiered.’ Under these circumstances, the accoucheur rashly opened the head. After- wards, by turning the child, and forcible ex- traction, the mother sustained so much injury that she died in a few days. There, is great reason to believe, that, in skilful hands, all the four lives w’ould have been preserved to the community. T could easily add to this list, from my own observation; and until accouch- eurs are more carefully instructed, such acci- dents must be expected frequently to occur. Since apothecaries have so generally ne- glected their proper business, to intrude ujxm that of the physicians, sui’geons, and midwives, an order of people, till lately unknown in small towns, have gradually established themselves all over the kingdom, who undertcake to sell dmgs^