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[370]. “Les symptomes qu’on appelle signes rationels de grossesse, ne la caracterisent cependant, que d’une maniere tres incertaine.” Baudelocque, L’Art de Accouchem. t. 1, p. 180.
“Omnes qui de graviditatis signis scripserunt, quamvis longo artis usu celebres fuerint, unanimi ore fatentur, primis præcipue mensibus signa graviditatis satis incerta esse.” (Van Swieten Com. in Aphor Boer. tom. vi, p. 331.)
[371]. Van Swieten Com. in Boer. tom. vi, p. 330.
[372]. La Medecine Légale, relative a l’Art des Accouchemens. Par J. Capuron. A. Paris, 1821. A work which we very strongly recommend to those who are interested in the subject.
[373]. Roeder. Elem. Art. Obst. p. 52.
[374]. Instituzione di Med. For. vol. 1, p. 179—also Plenck, Art. Obst. p. 38.
[375]. We all remember the extraordinary instance of Johanna Southcote.
[376]. In the celebrated case of the Demoiselle Famin, published at Berlin and Paris by Valentin, 1768, a charge of pregnancy and child-murder was erroneously instituted, in consequence of an extreme case of Ovarian dropsy.
[377]. Dictionaire de Chirur. tom. 1.