Medico-legal observations upon infantile leucorrhoea / William Robert Wills Wilde.

  • William Wilde
Date:
1853
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    that she had a free discharge from the preputium clitoridis. I said that there was nothing so common as this. There was considerable inflammation, and it had even proceeded to ulceration, which I told him would soon give way to the use of the liquor calcis, with calomel. ' Do you tell me so ? (he repMed,) why, suspicion has faUen on one of the servants ; but he will not confess. If he had appeared at the Old Bailey, I should have given my evidence against him, for I was not aware of what you have just now told me.' I told him that if the man had been hanged by his evidence, he would have deserved to be hanged too.* I am anxious that this complaiat should be known by every one present, and that the remarks I have made should be circulated throughout the kingdom.—Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Surgery, by Sir Astley Cooper, Bart. Sixth Original Edition. London, 1839. Pp. 541, 542. Some cases of this nature having recently occurred in Dublin, I thought it my duty to pubHsh an account of them in the London Medical Times and Gazette; and * When Sir Astley first delivered his lectures, the punishment of this offence was death. We may, however, still paraphrase the expression, and say, If the man had been transported, he (the doctor) would have deserved to be transported too. [See also a paper by Dr. J. E,. Cormack, in the Edinburgh Monthly Journal for September, 1844-.]
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