To Professor Simpson, of Edinburgh, in reply to his letter to Dr. Collins, on the "Duration of labour as a cause of mortality and danger to mother and infant" : second letter / by Robert Collins, M.D.

  • Collins, Robert, 1801-1868.
Date:
1848
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Credit: To Professor Simpson, of Edinburgh, in reply to his letter to Dr. Collins, on the "Duration of labour as a cause of mortality and danger to mother and infant" : second letter / by Robert Collins, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and to the Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin^ and sundry other learned individuals, these singularly censurable Pamphlets have been supplied, plausibly founded upon the authority of Dr. Collins, when the sufferings of the patients under Profes- sor Simpson, from protracted labour, which were proportionally TEN TIMES more numerous, and six times more fatal, have been scrupiilously concealed. These misdeeds, after a length- ened period of forbearance on my part, were foHotved by an essay on Turning, as an alternative for Craniotomy and the long YoYce^iS) so fraught with danger, that I felt it my duty to call the serious attention of the profession to the entire of these innovations, and I believe the exposure is likely to be followed by good results. Dr. Simpson states he will not promise to answer any further communications On this subject. . * As his observations, in publicly ^ddreislfag' m^,'^sometimes nearly approach his private Correspondence,' I fear I shall be constrained to treat him in the same way I have already done with regard to the latter, and to request that whei), in future, he has nothing more polite to communicate, he will save him- self the trouble of writing.—Extracted from the British Revieiv, ■7)ec.^^l5,1^848; -v--^ ' ''Vlr- ' T''^^'' ' ..air ae'miod s>-gbif\ -5?.rj.m ^>d?-Jcdi dgfTiji^a laifii;^ <i ;T ■ on at , , : ; ' ,hbj3 Ifiw, liba^j tnstd^^id ^o ■■■J '/iiiT v'\ b*)'>n.-')n»Moo '{i • •. ■■■•hO.UI Odi iW>6I t>V>Ui OilY/ ySOii A ■ lil iilrv/ i)t)xi<om ^^HO)if«vf o-i arjd bM qI'j ■■oh od) Printed by Purdon, Brothers, 23, BacJielors-walk.