Elements of medical jurisprudence, or, A succinct and compendious description of such tokens in the human body as are requisite to determine the judgment of a coroner, and of courts of law, in cases of divorce, rape, murder, &c. : To which are added, directions for preserving the public health.

  • Farr, Samuel, 1741-1795.
Date:
1788
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Elements of medical jurisprudence, or, A succinct and compendious description of such tokens in the human body as are requisite to determine the judgment of a coroner, and of courts of law, in cases of divorce, rape, murder, &c. : To which are added, directions for preserving the public health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the child, by making an incifion thro5 the abdominal mufcles into the uterus. This is fieldom performed upon the living mother, but may be, and is in¬ deed always advifeable, fhould the mo¬ ther die before die can be delivered, and life is perceived in the child. In this way feme great perfonages, and particularly our Edward VI. is faid to have been born. Another method lately propofed in France, and ah fo¬ il] tely put in practice upon living fubjects, is, by dividing the cartilage which binds together the bones that furround the womb, and thus enlarg¬ ing the opening. This may likewife be called extraordinary, though the delivery be made by the natural paf- fages; yet the ftridtnefs of terms con¬ fines it tothofe labours which are made by pafiages different from the common. When the word parturition relates to the child itfelf, it may denote the time when it is born, the conforma- When par¬ turition re¬ lates to the child. non