A probationary essay on the viability of the fœtus : submitted, by authority of the President and his Council, to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, when candidate for admission into their body, in conformity to their regulations respecting the admission of Ordinary Fellows / by Alexander D. Campbell.

  • Campbell, Alexander Dewar, -1852.
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1842
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    Valentini,' Teichmeyer, Mauriceau,- La MoTTE,^ Van Swieten,^ Ludwig,^ Plenk,*^ Metzger,^ William Hunter,^ Fodere,^ Belloc,* Devergie/' Baudelocque,^^ Capuron,'^ Tortosa, ^ Pandect Med. Leg. part i. sect. i. p. 144. - Liv. ii. p. 205. Les enfans qui naissent efFectivement a sept mois, sont si petits et si foibles, que je n'ai jamais vu un seul vivre plus de quinze jours. Cap. xxvii. p. IIG. J'appelle un enfant etre ne a terme quand il est en etat de conserver la vie. J'appelle I'enfant etre a terme de- puis le commencement du settieme mois. A case is mentioned where a woman and her daughters always bore seven months' children. * Comment, tom. iv. p. 516. 5 Instit. Med. For. de part, legit, part ii. cap. ii. Element. Med. et Chirurg. For. p. 87. 7 System. Med. For,, sect. iii. cap. ii. « Hargrave's Note, 190 on sect. 188 of Coke on Littleton, We see no children born with powers of coming to manhood, or of being reared before seven calendar months. At six months it cannot be. 9 Medecine Le'gale, p. 808. Parmi les enfans qui naissent a cet epoque (settieme mois) la plupart ne tardent pas a mourir ensuite. 10 Medecine Legale, pp. 77, 78, contains two cases of six months. 11 Medicine Legale, art. Viabilite, p. 704. Les enfans de sept mois sont dans des conditions peu favorables a la viabilite. Art des Accouch., p. 519. L'Avortement est I'expulsion du foetus, avant qu'il ne soit assez fort, et assez developpe', pour conti- nuer de vivre apres sa naissance, quelques soins qu'on donne a sa conservation. Tout accoucbment qui se fait avant le septieme mois de la grossesse, est un avortement. 13 Medecine Legale, p. 157. . . . il est vrai qu'il ne pent jamais y avoir de viabilite pour le foetus avant la hn du cinquieme mois de grossesse, p. 158, depuis la fin du cinquieme jusqu'a la fin du set- tieme, les enfans ne sont guere plus viables. 14 Istituzioui di Med. For., vol. ii. p. 100. Un Germe, le di cui parti componenti godano di una facillissima propensione alio svogli- ersi, potra col favore di ottime circostanze giugncre con estraordina- ria prestezza ad un grado di sufficiente sviluppo, acquibtare una anti- cipata maturita, e preveiiire I'ordinario termine al paito, nascend non pur ostante vitale. Ecco I'originc dei parti che diconsi prema-