Royal Maternity Charity: Robert Barnes' Case Book, 1857-1868

Detailed accounts of cases attended on behalf of the Royal Maternity Charity, including some sketches, purportedly by Robert Barnes, physician, with loose papers enclosed, including letters from midwife, Mrs C Young, requesting the assistance of Dr Barnes to a case in Hackney Road, London (April - July 1860); requests and invoices for attendance to cases on behalf of the charity; an interesting letter from G Roper, of Shoreditch, describing a case (September 1862); completed forms from midwives requesting assistance (1862-1867); a pencil sketch annotated 'uterus lays across the pubus like a sack on a horse's back'; and a blank order form issued by the charity to the patient for the attendance of a midwife. The volume seems to have been previously used by John [Faulkener] (c.1847) and includes a few transcriptions of model legal / property documents [by Faulkner].

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