Corpulence, or, Excess of fat during pregnancy : a letter to Dr. Lee / by Thomas King Chambers.

  • Chambers, Thomas King, 1818-1889.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Corpulence, or, Excess of fat during pregnancy : a letter to Dr. Lee / by Thomas King Chambers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    DEAR DR. LEE, It is an unusual thing for one who does not undertake the duties of an accoucheur to commit to print practical observations on the state of pregnancy. Yet I hope I shall not be looked upon as a presumptuous trespasser on the obstetric science when I call the attention of the profession to an accident or disorder of that state, concerning which I find little notice, if any, in even our best books of midwifery. Circumstances have brought this particularly under my eye, and have excited my interest in it; so that I am anxious, by laying my obser- vations before the medical public, ornamented and shielded in a manner by your name, to elicit as well as afford information. I published in 1850 a course of lectures