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

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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$Your o])lnion is founded on the statement made to you by par- ticular women, as to the time when they were in a particular way ?— Yes. Cross-examined by Mr. Adam. In your own instance you have always gone a shorter period than nine months ?—I have come as much as six or seven days within the nine months, but I have never exceeded it; and I have had twelve live born. Re-examined by Mr. Tindal. You have stated the ground of yoiir o|)ihioti; is it from what you have heard from other women, or what you have heard generally ?— Wliat I have heard generally ; I have heard more than a dozen women say they have gone ten months. (Mr. Attorney General.) How many have you heard state this?— I cannot say. I heard a woman say she had gone ten months, and she hopes to be put to bed to-morrow. Have you ever heard a woman say she had gone eleven ?—I have heard of such cases, but they never came within my own know- ledge. There is a woman now lies in, who has been confined a fortnight to-morrow, and she says she has gone ten months. Do you attend one or more hospitals ?—1 attend the Middlesex Lying-in Hospital out patients. At what period are women allowed to come in?—-They do not come into the Middlesex hospital. Of any other?—In tlie Westmister Lying-in Hospital they do not give us their letter till they say they are within the last mouth. Was the woman you w’ere mentioning in that hospital ?—No. Where is she ?—At her own house in St. Andrew’s Street, When they lie in at home, may they get their letter at any time ?— No ? they only get their letters about the seventh month, as it is so common for women to come at that period. From the seventh to the ninth month, are they assisted by the hospital?—No, they have no money ; it.is only for tlie attendance of a Midwife, and a Doctor if necessary, and to supply them with medicines. The witness was directed to witljdraw *. * Had time been granted by the Committee, it ^vas proposed to have pro- cured the attendance of Dr. Hamilton of Edinburgh, and other witnesses, in behalf of the counter-claimant, Mr. Henry Fenton ^Gardner.—Vide note, p. 42. . \ THE END. LONDON: PRINTED BY CHARI.ES WOOD, Poppln’s Court, Fleet Stri'et,$