On the uncertainty of the signs of murder, in the case of bastard children, &c / by William Hunter.

  • Hunter, William, 1718-1783.
Date:
1829
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Credit: On the uncertainty of the signs of murder, in the case of bastard children, &c / by William Hunter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    that she could not longer support it. With that view of her situation, every humane heart will forget the indiscre- tion or crime, and bleed for the suffer- ings which a woman must have gone through ; who, but for having listened to the perfidious protestations and vows of our sex, might have been an affecti- onate and faithful wife, a virtuous and honoured mother, through a long and happy life ; and probably that very re- flection raised the last pang of despair, which hurried her into eternity. To think seriously of what a fellow-creature must feel, at such an awful moment, must melt to pity every man whose heart is not steeled with habits of cru- elty; and every woman, who does not affect to be more severely virtuous and chaste than perhaps any good woman ever was. It may be said that such a woman's