. A system of midwifery, including the diseases of pregnancy and the puerperal state. r their infants; though allothers (being obliged, for want of such an expedient, to use the commonway) do and must endanger, if not destroy, one or both, with a sort of apology for keeping it secret, he adds, there being myfather and two brothers living that practice this art, I cannot esteemit my own to dispose of nor publish it without injury to them. The political troubles of his time obliged Dr. Hugh Chamberlen, ontwo occasions at least, to fly the country and take refuge on the Con-tinent, wher
. A system of midwifery, including the diseases of pregnancy and the puerperal state. r their infants; though allothers (being obliged, for want of such an expedient, to use the commonway) do and must endanger, if not destroy, one or both, with a sort of apology for keeping it secret, he adds, there being myfather and two brothers living that practice this art, I cannot esteemit my own to dispose of nor publish it without injury to them. The political troubles of his time obliged Dr. Hugh Chamberlen, ontwo occasions at least, to fly the country and take refuge on the Con-tinent, where he made various attempts to dispose of his offer to sell it to the French Government was refused, chieflyon account of the failure which had attended his efforts to deliver awoman upon whom Mauriceau had resolved to perform the Caesarianoperation, and which was therefore a case, as we may assume, quiteunsuitable for the operation by the forceps. He was more successful,however, in Holland, where he managed to. dispose of his secret to 462 THE FORCEPS. [CHAP. Fig. in. Sketch of Chamberlens for-ceps. (Rigby.) several practitioners, of whom the eminent Ruysch, the anatomist,was one. From the Netherlands to Germany, where it was used bySolingen, and ultimately to France, the secretslowly spread, until it was a secret no longer^and was recognized in all its importance by themost accomplished accoucheurs of the before the operation had thus made itsway into notice on the Continent, the secret inthis country had undoubtedly oozed out insome quarter; and, ultimately, the midwiferyforceps was described and figured by Chapman,in his well-known work, as the instrument usedby the Chamberlens. A very interesting dis-covery was made in the old manor-house of asmall estate near Maiden, in Essex, whichhad been purchased by Dr. Peter Chamberlentowards the end of the seventeenth century,and which had remained in the family tillabout 1715. In an old chest in one of theroom
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