Medical and chirurgical reform proposed, from a review of the healing art, throughout Europe, particularly Great Britain : with considerations on hospitals, dispensaries, poor-houses, and prisons; observations on the apothecaries late application to Parliament; and proposals for general legislative regulations : including hints for improving the healing and ueterinary arts / lby T. Champney, member of the Corporation of Surgeons; gurgeon to the Poultry, New, and Ludgate counters; fellow of the Medical Society; the Physical Society; the Lyceum Medicum Londinense; medical assistant of the Royal Humane Society; and practitioner of surgery, pharmacy; and midwifery in London.

  • Champney, Thomas, 1761-1816.
Date:
1797
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Credit: Medical and chirurgical reform proposed, from a review of the healing art, throughout Europe, particularly Great Britain : with considerations on hospitals, dispensaries, poor-houses, and prisons; observations on the apothecaries late application to Parliament; and proposals for general legislative regulations : including hints for improving the healing and ueterinary arts / lby T. Champney, member of the Corporation of Surgeons; gurgeon to the Poultry, New, and Ludgate counters; fellow of the Medical Society; the Physical Society; the Lyceum Medicum Londinense; medical assistant of the Royal Humane Society; and practitioner of surgery, pharmacy; and midwifery in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    <midwife remaining in all eafes. What can be more unnecefTary, or unmanly, than for a furgeon or phyfician to negleft his other patients, to fit by a lady's bedfide, for hours together in a natural labour, which any fe- male of prudence could manage; and fhould his duty prompt him to leave his patient to purfue other urgent concerns, he may then, by his abfence, create much anxiety, and perhaps the mother or child may fufFer; for though but little help is in general required, to be prefent is abfolutely neceffary. While men only fhall attend in cafes of childbirth, and the mother and infant are left fo much in the hands of a nurfe, per- haps an ignorant one, we can never ex- pe61: the difeafes of infants to have that at- tention which humanity requires; for the nurfe muft be courted and have her.way, leaft the doftor's interefl fliould fuffer; and until midwives of regular education are employed to attend on their own fex, and nurfes are alfo obliged, by law, to qua- lify and obtain a certificate, to follow their occupation, and under the power of fufpen- fion, in cafe of mifbehaviour; we need not exped that water-pap and Godfrey's cor- dial, ading as caufe and cure, will ever be abolifhed