Successful case of extraction of child by caesarean section after the death of the mother.

Harley, George, 1829-1896.

Journal : (The) Monthly Journal of Medical Science ; vol. xi.

Edinburgh : Sutherland and Knox, 1850.

Description : 21-24 p., [1 l.] pl. ; ill.: 1 phot. ; 14 cm.

Photograph : albumen (unverified) portrait of the child at age 16. Photograph taken in 1866.

Subject : Gravid uterus — Caesarean section ; partus post matris mortem.

Notes :

• "Read by Dr. [James Young] Simpson, on 5th June, at the Meeting of the Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society."
• Author caption: By George Harley, Esq., House-Surgeon in the Edinburgh Maternity Hospital.
• Medical degree: University of Edinburgh, 1850.
• Postgraduate work at College de France Physiology Laboratory, under Magendie and Bernard.
• Postgraduate studies in Germany under Virchow and Liebig.
• Lecturer, practical physiology and histology, University College, London, 1855.
• Fellow, Edinburgh College of Physicians, 1858.
• Professor, medical jurisprudence, University College, London, 1859.
• Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, 1864.
• Reprint: (Brathwaite's) Retrospect of Medicine, vol. xxii ; p. 347-348.
• Offprint also issued.
• Eponym: Harley's disease - paroxysmal hemoglobinuria.
• GM: 4171.
• Index Medicus: 20607561250.

Harley circulated the offprint with a photographic portrait, taken 16 years later, of the premature child he had delivered by cesarean section and labored to resuscitate. There are almost no copies extant. A manuscript note attached to a copy archived at the National Library of Medicine indicates the boy was working as a page in the service of Dr. Harley. The mother was in poor health and asphyxiated suddenly from a lung infection.