[141] Clay, Obstetric Surgery, p. 68.
[142] Sinclair and Johnston, Practical Midwifery, 1858. 130 cases of craniotomy in 13,748 labors.
[143] Clay, Loc. cit., p. 69.
[144] The subject of justifiable craniotomy has of late been ably though controversially discussed by an anonymous writer (Dublin Review, April and October, 1858,) and Dr. Churchill (Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science, August and November, of the same year). Care must be taken, lest in assenting to the decided and imperative necessity of the operation in certain cases, and by a natural professional sympathy, too great frequency is not allowed to this most horrible and appalling of all the operations to which as physicians we can ever be called.
[145] Review of Clay’s Obstetric Surgery; Boston Med. and Surg. Journal, November, 1856, p. 283.
[146] Theory and Practice of Midwifery, p. 348.
[147] De jure vitæ et necis quod competit medico in partu. Heidelberg, 1826.
[148] “Where one only can by any possibility be preserved, the female herself may use her right of self-preservation and choose whether her own life or that of her child shall fall a sacrifice.” Guy, Principles of Forensic Medicine, p. 145.
[149] Guy’s Hospital Reports, 1856, p. 12.
[150] Dublin Quarterly Journ. of Med. Science, August, 1858, p. 10.