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An address to British females on the moral management of pregnancy and labour, and some cursory observations on medical deportment : $b Suggested by the death of Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales: with a vindication of Her Royal Highness's physicians, Sir Richard Croft, Dr. Baillie, and Dr. Sims — John Shaqi

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An address to British females on the moral management of pregnancy and labour, and some cursory observations on medical deportment : $b Suggested by the death of Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales: with a vindication of Her Royal Highness's physicians, Sir Richard Croft, Dr. Baillie, and Dr. Sims

Name: An address to British females on the moral management of pregnancy and labour, and some cursory observations on medical deportment : $b Suggested by the death of Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales: with a vindication of Her Royal Highness's physicians, Sir Richard Croft, Dr. Baillie, and Dr. Sims
Author: Cooke, William

Cooke, William

Baillie, Matthew, 1761-1823; Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817 -- Death and burial; Croft, Richard, Sir, 1762-1818; Labor (Obstetrics); Obstetrics; Pregnancy -- Complications; Prenatal care; Sims, John, 1749-1831

AN ADDRESS

                                   TO

                            BRITISH FEMALES

                                   ON

                          THE MORAL MANAGEMENT

                                   OF

                         PREGNANCY AND LABOUR,

                            AND SOME CURSORY

                  OBSERVATIONS ON MEDICAL DEPORTMENT.

                              SUGGESTED BY

                               The Death

                     OF HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS

                      CHARLOTTE AUGUSTA OF WALES.

                                  WITH

                             A VINDICATION

                                   OF

                    HER ROYAL HIGHNESS’S PHYSICIANS,

                           SIR RICHARD CROFT,

                       DR. BAILLIE, AND DR. SIMS.

                           BY WILLIAM COOKE,

                          SURGEON-ACCOUCHEUR.

  “To enjoy Happiness is a great blessing:―to confer it, a greater.”

                                LONDON:

                      PRINTED FOR E. COX AND SON,

                     ST. THOMAS’S STREET, BOROUGH.

                                 1817.

                         J. M‘Creery, Printer,
                       Black-Horse-Court, London.

                             ADVERTISEMENT.

From the first intimation of the death of Her Royal Highness Princess
Charlotte, the general sensation heightened daily, till the climax was
completed on the melancholy day of interment. Within this interim it
was scarcely possible, without a surreptitious effort, either to speak
or think on any other topic.

The prevalence of this acute sensibility―the daily intelligence of
consecutive evils―and the relief obtained by fixing the attention on
some specific object, gave origin to this pamphlet.

Whatever belongs to moral agency, as well as to the preceptive and
practical portions, is the result of previous observation; and for
them the Author solicits no other concession than is due to the
circumscription of his plan. The style and arrangement he is aware
are exceptionable. He pleads in extenuation that the address is
extemporaneous:―suggested by a high degree of social feeling with his
interesting countrywomen, and under circumstances that forbade the
delay which much emendation would have occasioned.

Should it be imagined that the specification of certain incongruities
is too severe, the Author solicits credence for an assurance that he
has exclusively referred to the excrescence and not the character.
There is not an individual in the world whom he has intended to deride.

The vindication he has offered in the sequel is totally disinterested;
the persons referred to are entirely unknown to him.

The term Moral prefixed to this Address, may appear disingenuous.―Much
difficulty arose in fixing on a single appellation which should embrace
a _distinguished_ feature in the address, and yet contra-distinguish it
from one _purely_ medical.

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