A detection of the fallacy of Dr. Hull's defence of the Cesarean operation.
- Simmons, W. (William), 1762-1830
- Date:
- [1799?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A detection of the fallacy of Dr. Hull's defence of the Cesarean operation. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![G9 From that period to the present hour, there ‘has not been one instance of the Cesarean ope- ation, in London; which is pretty conclusive against the Dr. The Dr. in his zeal for the defence of the Cesarean section, imputes its failure to the too Jong delay of the operation; but, that all the means, which human sagacity could devise, were carefully employed in the above two cases, the bare recital of the names of the gentlemen who attended, would be a sufficient proof, even though Dr. Cooper had not stated the fact in his account of the first case. After so many trials, and under circumstances so favourable as some of them have been conducted, it would require strong and new grounds to justify a re- petition of the.operation. And if it shall appear that, even when performed early, and, where all the advantages of great skill and attention were enjoyed, the operation still proved fatal, the Dr. must resort to some other pretence to extenuate his practice of it. As usual, he has provided me with a case in point, the first which occurred to Dr. Cooper, and that in which Mr, Thompson was the operator.” In his Synoptical] table, the Dr. tells us, that the patient had suf- fered no previous disease, had been little more than twenty-four hours in labour, and yet she](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33085444_0105.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
