A report of the practice of midwifery, at the Westminster General Dispensary, during 1818. Including new classifications of labours, abortions, female complaints, and the diseases of children; with computations on the mortality among lying-in women, and children; and the probabilities of abortion taking place at different periods of pregnancy, &c., &c., with select cases and formulae / By Augustus Bozzi Granville.

  • Augustus Granville
Date:
1819
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Credit: A report of the practice of midwifery, at the Westminster General Dispensary, during 1818. Including new classifications of labours, abortions, female complaints, and the diseases of children; with computations on the mortality among lying-in women, and children; and the probabilities of abortion taking place at different periods of pregnancy, &c., &c., with select cases and formulae / By Augustus Bozzi Granville. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it epidemic — that is to say^ more prevalent during* certain kinds of weather, and at par-’ ticular seasons of the year; but contact and simple intercourse between a healthy person, and one labouring under the disease, are insufficient to its propagation. The measures of precau¬ tion, which medical men, who are in the habit of seeing this complaint, think proper to adopt, are praise-worthy, and in no case] ought they to be neglected. I am myself in the habit of changing my dress after having visited any febrile patients of the Dispensary; but I do not mean to imply, by such a practice, that every disease which I am likely to see, on those occasions, may be communicated through - me to my private patients; and that I endeavour to avoid this, by divesting myself of every ar¬ ticle of apparel which is likely to spread the supposed contagion. Of the chronic and organic diseases of fe¬ males, mentioned in the table, many of very long standing have been cured. Some were only relieved, because cure seemed impossible ;