The authentic medical statement of the case of H.R.H. the late Princess Charlotte of Wales / Extracted from the ... "London Medical Repository;" published 1st December, 1817.

  • Anthony Todd Thomson
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[1818?]
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Credit: The authentic medical statement of the case of H.R.H. the late Princess Charlotte of Wales / Extracted from the ... "London Medical Repository;" published 1st December, 1817. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lures to account for its cause. In every circle, rumours of the most preposterous and incredible nature were afloat; and, dis¬ graceful as the fact is, the calamity that overwhelmed the nation, gave an opportunity for malice and envy to level their poisonous shafts at the characters and professional effi¬ ciency of the medical attendants of the amiable Sufferer. As is ever the case, when falsehoods and slanders are published, the most ignorant were the most credulous and loud in their abuse. But the contagion was not confined to any rank; and the most illiberal surmises have been raised by para¬ graphs in some of the daily journals ; which have disgraced themselves by thus becoming the vehicles of propagating untruths over Europe, not only injurious to the reputation of the honourable men, who were more im¬ mediately implicated, but highly detrimental to the British medical character. It is to defend this, to fix the popular opinion, which is still vacillating between truth and error.
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