Lanterna Rally

Author: Aeneas Munro

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9781230154374

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ... so far, at least, as the heterogenetic cases are concerned." OPINION OF DR. KENNEDY, OF DUBLIN. Metria Mortality due to Defective Construction.--" But let it not be supposed that we look upon the result of lying-in hospital practice in this city as the most fatal to be found; on the contrary, it is one of the least fatal of the great lying-in hospitals throughout Europe, showing that not to the want of skill and talent is due the fearful mortality upon which we dwell, but to an inherent defect of the gravest character in the system or construction of these institutions, and one that baffles human ingenuity to correct as long as they continue to be constructed upon their present vicious and faulty plan." Importance of maintaining a Midwifery School on a sound Basis.--" But it will be asked would you absolutely shut up the hospital, and destroy our world-renowned school of midwifery in this city? By no means; I would establish the midwifery school upon a sound basis. I would take the lead, as Dublin has ever done, in this department of medicine, and correct the crying abuses that exist; abuses that may have been excusable when ignorant of them, but which are unpardonable alike in the eyes of God and man when dragged into the light of day. There is no difficulty whatever in the case of the Lyingin Hospital of Dublin in meeting the intentions of the founder by such an alteration of the present system as our increased knowledge of its vices suggests. The correction of these abuses will benefit the medical school of Dublin, and the obstetrical branch in particular." Half measures doubly misleading.--" I sincerely deplore that he (Dr. Kidd) should be only almost, and not altogether, convinced of the necessity of...