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
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. SimsCooke, William
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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
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
In the allusions we have made to medical character, let it not be
inferred that the slightest reflection on the Physicians of Her Royal
Highness is designed. Writers in some of the public papers have
cruelly animadverted on the conduct of one of them, at least, in this
momentous event; and the only apology which occurs to us is, that their
censures were the illegitimate though too often fertile offspring
of vehement sorrow. Had the influence of these remarks been limited
to the gentlemen whom more or less they were intended to reprehend,
they would have been comparatively unimportant; but they are scattered
through the kingdom, and, without the slightest authority, tend to
alloy unmingled and consecrated grief. To cherish the most latent doubt
that the illustrious Princess did not derive the utmost aid from human
experience, will heighten and pervert the general lamentation; and were
it possible the surviving Prince could be accessible to such a feeling,
how would it embitter future years, which, with undissembled sincerity,
we hope he will survive, in useful and happy life!
There are documents, however, before the public, from which
unfavourable inferences have been deduced; and our observations will be
impotent, unless the legitimate tendency of these documents be traced.
It must be conceded, that interested as we were in the life of Her
Royal Highness, and as we ever have been, and continue to be, in
the life of our truly revered but afflicted Monarch, the brevity of
official communication creates disappointment; but are we justified
in propagating the opinion, that what is withheld is necessarily
unfavourable?
We have been informed, that a respectful solicitation, presented to one
of the Physicians, to publish the Princess’s case, has been declined;
and the prudence of his decision is very perceptible.
It would demand an extraordinary coincidence of rare qualities to
communicate the full result of ocular and tangible observation. To
designate a disease is by no means difficult; but to describe on paper
all the distinctions of an experienced eye, and all the erudition of
habituated touch, and to impart to them the full energy of the original
source of demonstration, would require a power of delineation which
is unattainable. However explicit, therefore, an attempt might be to
detail so affecting a case as this, it is impossible the contumelious
should not find something to censure, and the wrangler something to
dispute; and a fountain of interminable and painful controversy might
be opened.
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