An address to British females on the moral management of pregnancy and labour ... / Suggested by the death of ... Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales.

  • Cooke, William, 1785-1873
Date:
1817
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An address to British females on the moral management of pregnancy and labour ... / Suggested by the death of ... Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    59 we were in the life of Her Royal Highness, and as we ever have been, and continue to be, in the life of our truly revered but af¬ flicted Monarch, the brevity of official communication creates disappointment; but are we justified in propagating the opinion, that what is withheld is necessa¬ rily unfavourable ? We have been informed, that a respect¬ ful solicitation, presented to one of the Physicians, to publish the Princess's case, has been declined; and the prudence of his decision is very perceptible. It would demand an extraordinary coin¬ cidence of rare qualities to communicate the full result of ocular and tangible ob¬ servation. To designate a disease is by no means difficult; but to describe on paper all the distinctions of an experienced eye, * ; and all the erudition of habituated touch, and to impart to them the full energy of the original source of demonstration, would require a power of delineation which is unattainable. However explicit, therefore, an attempt might be to detail so