A letter to Dr. Edward Rigby [on complicated labour] / [James Hamilton].

  • James Hamilton
Date:
1837]
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Credit: A letter to Dr. Edward Rigby [on complicated labour] / [James Hamilton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the writings of respectable practitioners, that accidental haemorrhagy not unfrequently proves fatal, which is directly at variance with your father’s inferences ; and it is upon this fact that my public duty compelled me to state, that his inferences had led to serious errors in practice. For example, Dr Ramsbotham, whose high re¬ spectability you must acknowledge, has re¬ corded, that in seventeen cases of accidental haemorrhagy, eight patients were lost. You allege that the whole profession, with the exception of myself and compatriot, admit the correctness of the inferences alluded to. I can, however, adduce in refutation of this allegation, the testimony of a witness to whom I do not anticipate any objection on your part, and that witness is your own Father. In his third edition, page 71? he says, in a note re¬ specting those inferences,— I have learned, however, that some practitioners, whose opi¬ nions deserve the highest respect, have still thought that I have expressed myself too con¬ fidently of nature’s ability, to relieve herself D