Successful case of cæsaream section : with remarks read at the anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical & Surgical Association held at Worcester, August 1st, 1849 / by Thomas Radford.

  • Radford, Thomas, 1793-1881.
Date:
1849
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Credit: Successful case of cæsaream section : with remarks read at the anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical & Surgical Association held at Worcester, August 1st, 1849 / by Thomas Radford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    reduced, and will bear a comparison with that of other capital operations, pi’ovided a just calculation be made of all contingent and relative circumstances existing in each case. The number of deaths will no doubt then fall considerably under those occasioned by the use of the perforator and crotchet, although it is now stated to be the reverse, but the truth of which statement I have great reason to doubt. The results to the mother, in all cases of the Cfesarean section, are known; but those after the use of the crotchet are buried in oblivion, the grave telling no tales. The child’s rights are maintained by the former, for if living, it may be extracted alive, but by the latter it is necessarily destroyed. WORCESTER: PRINTED BY DEIGHTON AND CO.