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

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1866
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    assist the hundredth woman better than one of her own sex ? A chance absurdly small, if edu- cated women, numbers of whom greatly need some honourable means of supporting themselves, held the position, naturally their own, of medical ad- visers to their own sex. Time was that medicine was almost entirely in the hands of women; and we have no reason to think that it was perverted by them to crimes of experiment or violence, such as have disgraced our so-called age of civilization. “ The work of nature is too often spoiled by officious hands.”* “ By far the greater number of difficulties occurring in general practice are manufactured, arising from officious interference.”f “ Many a child has perished while it was extracted by the feet, which might have been born living, notwithstanding the exit of the cord, if the delivery had been left to nature.”! “ It has been said that women, delivered under circumstances where they had no assist- ance, generally escape without laceration . . . . and another reason is, that such patients have been spared the ill effects arising from ex- aminations.’^ * Dr. A. Hamilton’s, “ Elements,” p. 164. f Dr. Gr. Jewel, p. 170. t Drs. Hardy and M‘Clintock, p. 340. § Ibid. p. 0.