The Queen v. Beaney : extraordinary charge of murder against a medical man, in consequence of a diseased womb being ruptured after death : with medical notes and observations / by C.E. Reeves.

  • Reeves, C. E. (Charles Evans), 1828-1880
Date:
1866
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Credit: The Queen v. Beaney : extraordinary charge of murder against a medical man, in consequence of a diseased womb being ruptured after death : with medical notes and observations / by C.E. Reeves. 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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    once felt that the Crown Solicitor had mistaken his vocation, and that, although A true llatuary patriot he, so seldom understood, Who serves a grateful country, for his own good, Mr. Cardwell* should be applied to for permission for him to To steal my ovaries, and. cut my dear stomack. ’Tis ! No ! Yes 1 ’Tis ! I feel from the hot cold douche That’s stealing over me. It is, indeed, Old Cloot ! [Enter Bill.] [Speaks loith hilarity]—By Gnm ! Is that you, Bill ? You put me in a twitter. I felt so like a hen When some prowling rat designs to bone her litter. But, Bill, what news from Sydney, old duck ?+ Bill [at half grin]—Sydney stands where Sydney always stood ; Though, since you left, perhaps not quite so good. But what’s your little game, my coodling doo ?£ Are you leaving lawyering, to do— Fine Fig ure, with no apple dumpling appendage [hastily hut melancholically]— Oh, no, dear William ! I am only going To return thanks for good intents. Bill [at full grin, and pointing to F. F.’s apple dumpling region]— Ah! Yes! I see! For safe delivery, For your misgebaren|| pranks on Beaney. * The Crown Solicitor is one of those ephialtics which the colony owes to the days when Dummheit was paramount, when Ersamus’s Book on its advantages was the text book at the Colonial Secretary’s office for colonial appointments. What would the people in England say if our Chief Secre- tary were to send home a few of our Collins-street pavement-batterers with life appointments, and say “ pay them, and be thankful they are no good here. No matter how much mischief they may make, you cannot remove them—they are the servants of the colony—all you have to do is to pay them, and grin and bear.” We should soon hear that England needed no leading strings from us. But patience and time works wonders. t Old duck—a term of endearment used by the Sydney youths when addressing each other.—Author’s Note. t The “ parfit gentil knight,” the author, has evidently been reading about “coodling doos” (Anglice, cooing doves), in Chapter VI. of Joe Smith’s book entitled Mulier ets Hominis Confusio. Some one, full of true gallantry for the sex, has said— “ The sentence of this Latine is— Woman is mannes joy and mannes bliss.” The knightly author, who, like Chaucer’s Clerk, “ Of studie takes he moste care and hede; Not a word spekes he more than is need, And that in form and reverence, And . . . full of high sentence,” knows whether this be truly translated or not. II On looking into a German dictionary, the writer sees that misgebaren means misconception, misborn, &c<