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Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2019-02-11

Total Pages: 726

ISBN-13: 9781397307101

Excerpt from The Medical Times and Gazette, Vol. 2: A Journal of Medical Science, Literature, Criticism, and News, for 1862 It is worthy of note that, including the forty-eight hours of labour, death took place precisely at the end of twenty-one days, and it is not unlikely that a masked form of fever lurked behind the symptoms, causing the tedious labour by prostrating her vital powers, and being followed by the hemorrhage it predis posed to delirium and exhaustion. These were obviously excited by the uncontrollable mismanagement and maltreat ment of those relatives whose representations subsequently brought about the investigation. The Medical evidence clearly traced the death through tedious labour, haemorrhage, perpetual excitement, and reiterated shock to delirium, and fatal exhaustion. The black colour about the mouth, and bleeding nose, are to be explained by the fact that a mixture of citrate of iron and lemon-juice was being taken. Mr. Phillips, in his anxiety to get her to take the medicine, had poured some into her mouth out of a teaspoon, when she was half asleep. An apthous state caused the mouth to smart (or be burnt) by the lemon-juice, and she spat the medicine out angrily, and in her semi-maniacal state, accused her husband of having poisoned her. The acid citrate of iron gave her lips a red or blood-like colour, and this, in some places, was turned to an inky stain by the tea which she had swallowed a short time before. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.