Elements of medical jurisprudence; or, A succinct and compendious description of such tokens in the human body as are requisite to determine the judgment of a coroner, and courts of law, in cases of divorce, rape, murder, &c : To which are added, Directions for preserving the public health / [Samuel Farr].

Samuel Farr

Date:: 1814

Credit: Elements of medical jurisprudence; or, A succinct and compendious description of such tokens in the human body as are requisite to determine the judgment of a coroner, and courts of law, in cases of divorce, rape, murder, &c : To which are added, Directions for preserving the public health / [Samuel Farr]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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I] through the abdominal muscles into the uterus. Thisis seldom performed upon the living mother, but may be, and is indeed always advisable, should the mother die before she can be deli- vered, and life is perceived in the child. In this way some great personages, and particularly our Edward VI. is said to have been born. Another method lately proposed in France, and abso- lutely put in practice upon living ' subjects, is, by dividing the cartilage which binds together the bones that surround the womb, and thus enlarging the opening. ‘This may likewise be called extraordinary, though the deli- very be made by the natural passages ; yet the strictness of terms confines it to those labours which are made by passages different from the common. When the word parturition relates to the child itself, it may denote the time when it is born, the conformation of When par- turition re= lates to the child.

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