An essay on natural labours / by Thomas Denman, M. D. licentiate in midwifery of the College of Physicians.

  • Thomas Denman
Date:
1786
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Credit: An essay on natural labours / by Thomas Denman, M. D. licentiate in midwifery of the College of Physicians. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    ( 3' ) -this accident may be prevented, or any means to be ufed for its relief; excepting fuch as were gene- rally recommended for inflamed, ulcerated, or fiftulous parts. We may therefore prefnme that it is an accident which did not frequently occur in their practice, or that it was efteemed of too little confequence to engage their attention. With re- fpect to the former opinion, it may be obferved, that whatever event is the confequence of any caufe, mnft at all times be produced under the fame circumftances, if that caufe continues to exift and to aft. But thofe who had not perfection in view, and formed no-very nice rule for their own conducl, might not be fenfible of deviations, and would not adjudge difagreeableconfequences to their own error or milmanagement. They did not there- fore advife any method of preventing this accident, becaufe they wrere ignorant of the caufe, or they undervalued it. It may be further obferved, that the oldeft wri- ters in midwifery lived before the Chriftian religion was eftablifhed, and in countries in which poly- gamy was allowed; when the death or infirmity of one wife were comparatively of little importance to him who had many, equally, or in fome degree, partaking of his afFeaion. But on the eftablifh- ment of the Chriftian religion, by which the bad difpofitions of the human mind were corrected and its better qualities exalted, one wife only be- ing
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