A letter addressed to Dr. Johnson, editor of the London Medico Chirurgical Review [on obstetrical practices] / [James Hamilton].

  • Hamilton, James, 1767-1839
Date:
1836]
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Credit: A letter addressed to Dr. Johnson, editor of the London Medico Chirurgical Review [on obstetrical practices] / [James Hamilton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    testimony of the author, their accuracy cannot be questioned unless it can be proved that he is either incompetent to understand them, or that he has wilfully misrepresented them ; and I venture to believe that the reviewer dare not bring forward such an allegation. After I shall have shewn what your reviewer has actually done, I shall leave you to judge whether he has been guided by such obvious and upright rules of conduct. I.—In page 41, the reviewer has called in question a fact which is so well known in this city, that it must excite surprise here that any practitioner should be ignorant of it, viz., that the most certain method of distinguishing dropsy of the ovarium from ascites, is by tap¬ ping. In the former disease, the fluid drawn off is ropy and gelatinous, and after the opera¬ tion, the collapsed sac can be as plainly dis¬ tinguished through the parietes of the abdo¬ men, as the collapsed uterus after child-bear¬ ing.