An address to British females on the moral management of pregnancy and labour ... / Suggested by the death of ... Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales.

  • Cooke, William, 1785-1873
Date:
1817
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An address to British females on the moral management of pregnancy and labour ... / Suggested by the death of ... Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pleasures, and to sympathize is mutual sorrow. Duties often devolve on a practitioner of surgery, which demand the control of his feelings; and this has elicited the popular charge, that sensations, common to the rest of mankind, are to him unknown. Surely we are traduced—and on an occa¬ sion like this it will neither be thought un- philosophical, nor unworthy the attention of a scientific mind, to incline itself to an event which has agitated the country, and which especially fills the bosom of every female in the land. % # t ' , Collectively, it is impracticable to exhi¬ bit their interest on the occasion, but as individuals there is an important niche which they, and none else can occupy. It would neither be wise nor honorable to extinguish sensibility, nor to suppress the salutary eloquence of social grief; but to counteract the indulgence of excessive pas¬ sion, and to guard against the fruitful evils to which there is a consequent and per¬ petual tendency, is perfectly consistent