The Dublin practice of midwifery / By Henry Maunsell.

  • Henry Maunsell
Date:
1834
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Credit: The Dublin practice of midwifery / By Henry Maunsell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    man killed in the act of adultery; the experiments of Dr. Blundell *; and the analogies of vegetable fecundation, and of the generation of animals whose ova are impregnated after expulsion, in both of which, actual experiments prove the necessity of direct contact. On the other side, we have the unexplained difficulty of effecting contact, and the occasional occurrence of conception while the hymen is perfect, and an insuperable obstacle op- posed to the entrance of the male organ into the vagina. Upon the whole, the weight of evidence ap- pears to be in favour of actual contact; but where, or how effected, we know not. Such is the scanty foundation of facts upon which have been built the innumerable absurd, as well as ingenious, though fragile, theories of reproduction.
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