Excerpt from Researches in Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence
It is a fact no less melancholy than astonishing, that a practice so unnatural as that of infanticide should ever have prevailed to any extent. Its existence might have been supposed possible in those unhappy regions of our earth, where untutored passion and brutal sense reign triumphant over reason and morality; but that the fairest portions of society, where genius, science, and refinement had taken up their abode, should have been disgraced by a crime so disgusting, is one of those anomalies in the history of human feeling and conduct, which irresistibly prove how perfectly arbitrary and undefined are the laws of justice and humanity, when unguided by the principles of true religion. The fact, however, is not more astonishing than true. A slight review of its history will show us that this practice prevailed in almost all the ancient nations, and that it is not even yet blotted from the list of human crimes.
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