A lecture introductory to the theory and practice of midwifery.

  • John Leake
Date:
1782
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Credit: A lecture introductory to the theory and practice of midwifery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    :t *7 ] You tell us that—The cenfure ofDc. Smellier Forceps is unpro- ftable—You cannot then fay, that Dr. Leake is mercenary; but I mu ft inform you that to cenfure and to difapprove are very different things; Thofe who are beft acquainted with Dr. Leake well know that he is lefs difpofed to cenfure than commend ; and it is apparent he has not treated Dr. Smellie in the difrefpedful manner with which you mention the names of M. Leveret and H. Crantz. You next proceed as a panegyrift—Dr. Smellie was a Man of .great candour, indujlry, and ingenuity, and we are all indebted to him. I have often heard Dr. Leake in the courfe of his Ledures men- tion his name with great refped, and chearfully fubfcribe to his merit. You fay—We are all indebted to him. Thofe who have attended his Ledures I prefume, will not deny it; for your part. Sir, had you been as grateful to the Gentleman from whom you received your Inftrudions in Midwifery, we fhoqjd not have feen you engaged with him in a News-paper Billingfgate conteft, A. D. 1769. Again you fay—Dr. Smellie’r Forceps are 7iot taper at the point ~Not fo taper as the point of a Sword ;—but they are taper— verily they are taper. You add—The large nefs of the heady and narrawnefs of the Pelvis are relative TermSy &c.—This feems to be a new and very notable dilco- very, and what makes it the more valuable, it is not more difficult to be demonftrated, than that two and one make three. You fay—The cafe fuppofed in this Paragraph, I believe, never can happen at the upper part of the Pelvis. In what Paragraph ? for you do not fay, whether in Dr. Leake's, or your own. Pray Dodor what Profejfor, except fuch as you have mentioned in the beginning of your Remarks, ever talks' of a Cafe happening at the upper part of the Pelvis ; I fuppofe you mean a cafe where the Child’s head could not happen to be fo placed at