THE SICK man's COMFANION. "71 



dose with the additon of a spoonful of nerve 



powders; she soon got warm and com[iosed, and 

 her nervous system soon became calm and less 

 irritable; but from the injuries she had sustained 

 through the course of delivery, all her na'ural 

 evacuations had stopped: and the midwife tried 

 in vain, to produce a natural passage, I however, 

 in a very short time succt-eded, and saved her 

 from the perilous approach to mortification and 

 death. B'rom this time she began, perceptibly 

 to recover and the midwife with herself and rela^ 

 tions were very thankful for the great seryi 

 had rendered, and believed firmly, that, if the 

 course 1 had commenced at first, bad have been 

 continued, that the child would have been alive 

 and well, and the mother saved from the excruci- 

 ating pains and the dangerous siuation in which 



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unnatural treatment. Tliruogh the persuasion 

 of herself and relations, together with the inter- 

 est I felt for her recovery, I staid with her for 

 three days, and to theastoriishment and mortifi- 

 catitMi of the steel instrument D:>ctors, I left her 

 at that time, with medicine, ilirections; and in 

 a livly and fair way to recover which she did, as 

 I afterwards understood, in three or four weeks. 

 The first day, I took her through a course of 

 medicine, steaming her in bed, as she could not 

 he taken up, being so much injured by the D 



his iuslruments. The second and third 





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