The medical evidence relative to the duration of human pregnancy, given in the Gardner peerage cause, before the Committee for Privileges of the House of Lords in 1825-6 : with introductory remarks and notes / by Robert Lyall.

  • Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Committee for Privileges
Date:
1826
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Credit: The medical evidence relative to the duration of human pregnancy, given in the Gardner peerage cause, before the Committee for Privileges of the House of Lords in 1825-6 : with introductory remarks and notes / by Robert Lyall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It is five months and a fortnight since you first felt the child move ?—Yes. Did you make any memorandum of that?—No further than that I was very ill at the time I felt it. You have no entry in any book?—No. That depends upon your reckoning?—Yes; I counted from that time, and from that time 1 engaged the midwife. (Mr, Adam.) What do you mean by five months and a fort- night ; do you remember the month in the year when it was ?—No, I cannot say exactly ; but what 1 counted from was, that we moved about four months and a fortnight ago, and it was between three weeks and a month before that. What makes you think it was tliree weeks or a month before you changed your lodgings; what makes you fix that, rather than be- tween three months and four months ?—That is all I have to reckon from. You have no particular reason for fixing that date?—No. [Mr. Attorney General.) Do you take your lodgings by the weeks ?—Yes, Then when you say four months or five months, you mean four times or five times four weeks ?—No ; I count by the regular month. What do you call a month ; four weeks ?—Sometimes it is two days over the four weeks. You do not go by four weeks; you mean five calendar months ?— Yes, five calendar months. (By a Lord.) Why did you give over suckling your little girl?— Because the doctor that attended my little girl said I was two months gone then ; that was Doctor Cox. Your opinion of your being gone eleven months with child pro- ceeds upon Doctor Cox’s having told you you w'ere two months gone then ?— Yes. (Mr. Tindal.) Have you any other reason for knowing you were then with child?—No further than what other women count from. Had those ap])earances taken place so as to induce you to think you were with child?—Yes. 'JTliose appearances had ceased to take place?—Yes ; once since that appearance took place was this time twelvemonth. Are you able to state when it was that that last appearance took place ?—Yes ; it took place the latter end of this month twelve- month. The latter end of July in last year ?—Yes. (By a Lord.) Did that appearance take place during all the time you were suckling ?—No ; only that once ; that was all. You continued suckling afterwards?—Yes. And it did not take place again ?—No. (Mr. Attorney General.) During the time you were suckling, were you ever as women usually are ?—Only Hiat once. When was that?—The latter end of July last year.