Part 27

BAUDELOCQUE, tome i. p. 115; FODERE, ii. p. 17; MARC, Dict. de Méd., i. p. 228; MONTGOMERY, Signs of Pregnancy, p. 578; DEVERGIE, Méd. Légale, i. p. 244.

RYAN, p. 267; TARDIEU, loc. cit.

CLARKE, Trans. of Soc. for Impr. of Med.-Chir. Knowledge, iii. p. 290; BAUDELOCQUE, i. p. 123, note; LEROUX, Traité des Pertes, Obs. xiii. p. 25; MONTGOMERY, loc. cit., p. 618.

GARDNER, of New York, note to TYLER SMITH’s Lectures on Obstetrics, p. 203.

Am. Journ. of the Med. Sciences, April, 1859. In the instance referred to, the cervix had been deeply and extensively lacerated, forceps having been used in four previous labors; while depressions existing between the old cicatrices and half filled and ragged with clots, were decidedly suggestive of punctured wounds. The true nature of the case was rendered evident by its past history, and corroborated by the fact that the patient was a Catholic; the latter being a point to which I am inclined to attach much importance, for reasons already given.

Practical Treatise, p. 275.

RYAN, Med. Jurisprudence, p. 282.

ROSCOE, Law of Evidence, 242.

ARCHBOLD, Crim. Pleading, 491; 1 HALE, 455.

DAVIS, Crim. Justice, 482.

DAVIS, Crim. Justice, 483.

Reg. v. Haynes; Reg. v. Goodall; Rex v. Phillips.

Med. Times and Gazette, Jan., 1856, p. 611.

“This operation must not on any account be undertaken without the sanction, and in the presence, of another practitioner.”—CLAY, Hand-book of Obstetric Surgery, p. 13.

1 GABBETT, Cr. Law, 523.

Loc. cit.

CHEVALIER and DEVERGIE, Ann. d’Hyg., 1856, p. 157.

Med. Jurisp.; Griffith’s ed., p. 472, Hartshorne’s ed., p. 378.

TARDIEU, loc. cit., 1856, p. 124.

A Woman’s Thoughts about Women. By the author of “John Halifax, Gentleman.” 1858, p. 14.

Loc. cit.

Ibid.

Mass. Laws of 1847, chap. 83.

“By imprisonment in the State prison, house of correction, or common jail, not more than three years, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.”

Opera omnia. Ed. 1655, i., p. 643.

JÖRG of Leipsic, who speaks of the human fœtus as “only a higher species of intestinal worm, not endowed with a human soul, nor entitled to human attributes.”

SIMPSON, Obst. Works, i. pp. 352, 404.

Boston Med. and Surg. Journal, January, 1857, p. 462.