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.

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    Cross-examined—She sometimes looked pale and sometimes flushed. She told me, about three or four days before she left, that her womb was coming down ; she complained of a head-ache and a pain in her chest. Re-examined—It was on the Friday or Saturday that she com- plained of her womb coming down. (It being 4 o’clock, the Court adjourned until the following day.) Tuesday, 19 th June. The Court resumed its sitting. W. B. Rankin sworn and examined—I am a surgeon residing at St. Kilda. I knew Mary Lewis for five or six months before she left the Terminus Hotel. I attended the family there. I remember her coming to me on the 9th of January,* between seven and eight in the evening ; she said she was suffering from leucorrhoea and obstinate constipation of fhe bowels. I prescribed for her [prescription here produced]. + I gave her a purgative and a stimulant. On the 12th she came again and complained of the same thing, and said she was just the same as before—no better. I asked her what her state of monthly health was ; she said she had seen but little for some time. I then gave her this prescription [produced].]: I * At the inquest he said : “I attended her about the 7th of February, complaining of amenorrhcea, or absence of the menstrual discharge.” On the 12th he ordered her two mixtures and two boxes of pills. January 9th, 1866. f The Barmaid, Terminus Hotel. R Pil. Aloes c. Myrrh, 3 i* Divide in Pil. xii. Two to be taken every second night R Tinct. Sennse Co., 3 iv. Syrup Aurant, 3 A- Mag. Sulph., J i. Mist. Camph. ad., J viii. A wineglassful every morning. January 12th, 1866. vi. X Mixture and pills repeated. B.—January 12th, 1866. R Pil. Aloes c. Myrrh, 3 ss. Divide in Phil. vi. To be taken as before. R Tinct. Rhei. Co. Tinct. Jalapae aa, J ss. Mag. Sulph, | i. Aqua ad, J viii. To be taken as before. For the Barmaid, Terminus Hotel. W. B. R. W. B. R. W. B. R.