Parturition without pain or loss of consciousness / / by James Townley.

  • Townley, James.
Date:
1862
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Parturition without pain or loss of consciousness / / by James Townley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    StockwelL, My dear Sir, Allow me to express my gratitude for your kind care and attention to me during my two last confinements, and the great benefit I derived from your mode of re- lieving the dreadful pains of childbirth. •When consulting you in the year 1859 relative to my approaching confinement, which I very much dreaded, having upon two previous occasions suffered intensely the pains of labour for the space of nearly two days each time, I gladly accepted the proffered relief you offered me, though 1 was somewhat sceptical it would afford me all the relief you considered it was calculated to convey. I now beg to state, for the information of any who may never have participated in its inestimable benefit, that both in 1859 and in the last month (March, 1861), I am