[79]. Anatom. Reform. p. 71.
[80]. It should be understood, adds Dr. Hutchinson, that these children had never been fed before they were placed in the turning box at the hospital; which, perhaps, with the want of due warmth, &c. may have prevented their lungs being as much dilated as those of children of the same age, under ordinary circumstances.
[81]. Stockholm, Acad. Hand. t. xx, p. 40.
[82]. Dissert. de Docimas. Pulm. Ploucq.
[83]. This author relates the results of four hundred examinations of bodies of children made at the Hospice de la Maternité at Paris, for the purpose of furnishing some evidence on this subject, and the results of them are almost as various as it was possible for them to have been, within a certain range.
[84]. Principles of forensic medicine, p. 336.
[85]. The umbilical cord generally separates from the navel on about the fifth day, and is almost always partially detached on the fourth; the ulcerated surface is commonly healed by the eighth or ninth day.
[86]. Principles of forensic medicine, p. 311.
[87]. See vol. i, p. 219, tit. Supposititious Children.
[88]. At this moment London is infested by numerous bands of infant depredators, who in desperate hardihood, skill, perseverance, and combination, emulate the oldest criminals; female infants are permitted to walk the most public streets at mid-day, whose apparent age might bring their criminal associates within the statute 18 Eliz. The new vagrant act may give an useful stimulus to the police on this point, however vexatious and impolitic it may be on others.