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Excerpt from Greco-Roman and Arabic Bronze Instruments and Their Medico-Surgical Use
Many of the sounds may have been used at the membrane punction in the operation which forensic medicine of to-day calls criminal abor tion. The operation was used to a great extent by the Greeks as well as the Romans from the very same motives which twenty years ago Emile Zola complained in his novel fecondite. This was not then considered as a crime partly out of the theory that the life ofthe fetus only began with the birth. Tertullian spoke violently against this in his sermon de animac and asserts referring to the operations performed in such cases that the life of the fetus begins in utero; he mentions in his sermon no less than four instruments used by the surgeons for the mutilation of the fetus.
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