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    On the uncertainty of the signs of murder in the case of bastard children

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Title: On the uncertainty of the signs of murder in the case of bastard children

      Author: William Hunter

      Release Date: October 11, 2008 [EBook #26870]

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      on

      THE UNCERTAINTY

      of

      THE SIGNS OF MURDER

      in the case of

      BASTARD CHILDREN.

      by the late

      WILLIAM HUNTER, M.D. F.R.S.

      PHYSICIAN EXTRAORDINARY TO THE QUEEN,

      and member of the royal academy of sciences at paris.

      London:

      printed for j. callow, crown court,

      princes street, soho.

      1818.

      to the

      Members of the Medical Society.

      Read July 14, 1783.

      Gentlemen,

      In the course of the present year, one of our friends, distinguished by rank, fortune, and science, came to me upon the following occasion: In the country, he said, a young woman was taken up, and committed to jail to take her trial, for the supposed murder of her bastard child. According to the information which he had received, he was inclined to believe, from the circumstances, that she was innocent; and yet, understanding that the minds of the people in that part of the country were much exasperated against her, by the popular cry of a cruel and unnatural murder, he feared, though innocent, she might fall a victim to prejudice and blind zeal. What he wished, he said, was to procure an unprejudiced enquiry. He had been informed that it was a subject which I had considered in my lectures, and made some remarks upon it, which were not perhaps sufficiently known, or enough attended to; and his visit to me was, to know what these remarks were. I told him what I had commonly said upon that question. He thought some

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