An essay on the signs of murder in new born children / translated from the French, of Dr. P.A.O. Mahon, ... by Christopher Johnson, surgeon, Lancaster: ... with a preface and notes by the translator.

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1813
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    prevention of hemorrhage^ and the similarity of structure in the umbilical cord of large animals^ and that of the human species^ led him also to conclude that a fatal hemorrhage would not take place from the umbilical vessels of a new-born child^ (quod et in infante lethalis hcemorrhagia ex vasis umbilicalibus oriri non debeat). He even ventured to try the experiment upon two children, one of them hardly lost six drops of blood, the other only twenty drops. LXXIX. Alberti ^ relates an instance in which no hemorrhage occurred, though the cord was broken off near the umbilicus, yet the child lost much blood by the mouth. This infant only lived six hours; on examination, ecchymoses were ob- served on the head, blood was extravasated between the scalp and the skull, and between the brain and its meninges. The operator declared in his report, that the rupture of the umbilical cord had been the cause of death, although it was evident, even from , the report itself, that no hemorrhage had taken place from the vessels which constitute the <;ord. The medical faculty at Halle, however, assigned the death of the child to other causes. Alberti also testifies that there are numerous examples of the ligature on the umbilical cord being neg- G * Syst, Jurisp; Med. T. 3. c. 13. p. 138.