An exposition of Dr. Collins's misrepresentations of Dr. Hamilton's practical precepts [on midwifery], in a letter addresed to the editor of the Dublin Journal of Medical Science / [James Hamilton].

  • Hamilton, James, 1767-1839.
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1838 [1839]
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Credit: An exposition of Dr. Collins's misrepresentations of Dr. Hamilton's practical precepts [on midwifery], in a letter addresed to the editor of the Dublin Journal of Medical Science / [James Hamilton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In my extracts in the Dublin Medical Jouriialj 1 quote from Dr. Collins’s Practical Treatise the following cases : Page 158, No. 126, Died. Page 169, No. 130, Recovered. 300, 53 32, 53 35 471, 55 555, 35 464, 35 173, 35 55 471, 55 584, 53 jj 473, 53 605, 53 53 472, 33 626, 55 5? 473, 55 665, 35 55 474, 35 667, 33 3> 477, 53 817, 53 55 475, 55 725, 53 35 481, 33 1038, 33 35 476, 55 740, 33 33 483, 33 1091, 53 55 478, 35 810, 55 53 480, 53 976, 33 35 480, 53 1032, 53 35 482, 53 1041, 53 Dr. Collins h as ventured to accuse me, page 408, (Dublin Medical Journal, No. XXXIX.) of having “ given a most dis¬ torted view of the facts and practices recorded in his Practical Treatise.” On this charge I join issue, and challenge Dr. Col¬ lins to shew one misrepresentation of his facts and practice. In the second part of my Practical Observations, I had made an erroneous reference to certain cases recorded bv Dr. Collins, and whenever he pointed it out to me I explained, apologized for it, and corrected it, as acknowledged by Dr. Collins himself in your last Journal. But Dr. Collins has neither explained npr corrected the mis-statements of my doctrines, which 1 have thus pointed out. As my friend. Dr. John Moir, Assistant Physician to the Edinburgh General Lying-in Plospital, has undertaken to send to your Journal ah abstract of the cases which have occurred in that Hospital since the year 1823, I shall take no other notice of Dr. Collins’s observations respecting that Hospital, llian to point out a most deliberate misrepresentation respecting my account of that Institution, on which he has been pleased to found an impeachment of my veracity. He says, page 119 of your last Journal, “ Now ibr the