Observations on Mr. Simmons's Detection, &c. &c. : with a defence of the Cesarean operation, derived from authorities, &c. &c., a description of the female pelvis, an examination of Dr. Osborn's opinions, relative to embryulcia, and an account of the method of delivery by embryotomy / by John Hull.

  • Hull, John, 1761?-1843.
Date:
[1799?]
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Credit: Observations on Mr. Simmons's Detection, &c. &c. : with a defence of the Cesarean operation, derived from authorities, &c. &c., a description of the female pelvis, an examination of Dr. Osborn's opinions, relative to embryulcia, and an account of the method of delivery by embryotomy / by John Hull. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    should think myself, guilty of a considerable omission, if I nCc^lected to inform you, that the public, in my opinion, is too respectable to be deceived by false colours, and to advise you to cancel your Titlepage, and substitute for “ De- tection, &c. AN OLLA PODRIDA, * &c. &c. When 1 had looked over your former work, entitled “ Reflections on the Propriety of per- forming the Cassarean-Operation,” I was enabled to pronounce a just character of it in a few sig- nificant words, which 1 deem it unnecessary to repeat in this place. But your Detection is a work of a much more extraordinary nature. It is a most heteroge- neous compound ; the constituent parts of which are so numerous, so disjointed, and so strangely huddled together, that the analysis of it, and the due arrangement of its elements under dis- tinct heads, employed me a considerable time. I succeeded however so completely at Lift, that I am convinced scarcely any thing has escaped * Olla podrida est une compose cle toute.s sortes de v i- andes. Le Sage.—i. e. A Dish of all sorts.