Search : stillborn, elements, art, revolution, courage, homœopathy.

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1866
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    though the “ Lancet” has enunciated that “ ordi- nary cases” are the “ only school.” Perchance some think that creating difficulties iu a natural case makes it more interesting and instructive. Art, as Dr. Denman, the father of British mid- wifery, when alluding to first labours, remarks,— “ Being more frequently exercised on such occasions in remedying the evils which art has produced, than in rectifying those which are necessary or unavoidable.”* Dr. Conquest thus refers to the creation of difficulties: — “ One man, by incessant meddling, pro- duces rigidity of the parts, and even inflam- mation of the os uteri; so that his patient, through his folly, shall suffer from a most painful and protracted labour These sketches are not one shade too deep; and they are but a sample of those practical evils which are of almost every-day occurrence.”! How true is it that “ He is often the best accoucheur who keeps his hands in his pockets.” \ * Dr. Denman, ch. vii. p. 61. f Dr. Conquest by Dr. Winn, pp. 113, 114. + Dr. J. Blundell, p. 465: