1. W. Hunter (1783) ‘On the Uncertainty of the Signs of Murder in the Case of Bastard Children’—A Paper Read to the Members of the Medical Society, p. 5. The essay was published a year later in the journal Medical Observations and Inquiries, 6, pp. 266–90 [University of Glasgow, Sp Coll. Hunterian Add. 279].
2. For further discussion see J.L. Harrington (2009) The Unwanted Child: The Fate of Foundlings, Orphans and Juvenile Criminals in Early Modern Germany (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press), pp. 51–3
3. and C.B. Backhouse (1984) ‘Desperate Women and Compassionate Courts: Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century Canada’, The University of Toronto Law Journal, 34, p. 47.
4. This is a point reinforced by O. Ulbricht (1988) ‘Infanticide in Eighteenth- Century Germany’, in R.J. Evans (ed.) The German Underworld: Deviants and Outcasts in German History (London: Routledge), p. 114
5. and R. Schulte (1984) ‘Infanticide in Rural Bavaria in the Nineteenth Century’, in H. Medick and D.W. Sabean (eds.) Interest and Emotion: Essays on the Study of Family and Kinship (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), p. 89.