BOTANIC PHYSICIAN. 
ng it by cordials. Camphor, castor, 
considerable use. In delivery it is 
ions, which are“those of an hysterical 
ring gestation, than parturition. In 
are necessary. 
lation: to — ce, amet I have reason 
oF as olitary case of eaieMaions. anywise troublesome, where this 
 oatagge ondiah had been used. The cranberry, or cramp bark, 
ABORTION. ee 
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nt woman is more or less in dearer of slibitiod: 
be guarded against with the greatest care, as it not only 
constitution, but renders the woman liable to the same 
: ards. Abortion may happen at any period of preg- 
naney, bat is most common in the second or third month, sometimes 
it happens in the fourth or fifth. Ifit happens in the first month, it 
is usually called a false conception. If after the seventh month, 
the child may often be kept alive by proper care. 
BS This and every other disorder to which a woman during the state 
_ of her pregnancy is liable, is ‘chiefly owing to a deficiency of heat = =—__ 
and blood, which may be easily gathered from the consideration | 
of the expense she is at forthe nutrition of the feetus, and the forma- 
tion of its appurtenances; if two ounces of plood were drawn every : 
person ever-so healthy, for forty weeks t 
nmoen sense to determine whether such | stand 
‘Supernumerary blood-letting during that time. <°°™ 
upon t that their faces appear so thin, their noses 
ed in, and various disorders attack them which originate from 
= deficiency of blood. Ifa woman with child is bled, says Hippo- 
_ “erates, a miscarriage is endangered : : the larger the fetus, the more 
_ certain and expeditious will be the abortion. Experience confirms ; 
the truth of this observation of the divine old man. FP 1y 
who used blood-letting during their pregnancy, and miscar-_ 
but, on the omission of it, went: out: their full time, and were 
of healthy children... "That all do not miscarry who are 
indeed nothing i is more*to be wondered at than the 
resources of Nature, by which she can recover herself 
uences of such ill-timed evacuations. To use bloot 3 
beter because her periodical visits disappear, is absurd and’childish, 
- for it cannot be a manly argument that we ought to lavish away 
~ that fluid which a Aste demonstrates her want of by her's care to pre- 
serve it. , in a word, is always 
during pliers rs “and not seldom bring: 
To this rash and inexcusable imprudene 3 
bers of women who even go their full time, die in. ‘child-bed. 
; phe common causes of abortion are : the death of the child ; 
