where Deity leads, that has inflicted this curse upon woman, I, 
atthe native tribes—among them, the females, after making suita! 
preparations, deliver themselves alone, usually without any 
ance, and immediately get up and go about their business: — Vith 
‘them, injury or death from this process are never known. Among — 
no uncivilized people is the birth of a child considered an event to 
_-be dreaded, or anywise dangerous or doubtful ; it is only.  fe- 
_ > males who. are so unfortunate as to be cast within the paleo} 
Pregnant women, in this country, and particularly those whose 
delicacy, or nervous irritability, subjects them to many of the trifling 
ailments consequent upon this state, are generally managed in the 
following manner: if any unusual feeling is perceived, although it 
is a perfectly natural consequence, medical advice must be had, and 
pills or potions follow!» These agitate the system, increase the 
irritability, and render ‘a recurrence of those complaints more 
tain. Bleeding then becomes necessary to quiet ther 
must be repeated frequently throughout the term. T 
with drugs, and low diet, enfeebles the mother, robs the 
paves the way, either for abortion or for premature r 
which no sooner take place than’the practitioner commen 
ing in forcing medicines, at the same time employi ig as 
“his: bodily strength as may be necessary to drag the ch 
world. — : nay 
If the woman survives this abominable treatment, and gets over it 2 
in months, she does well. If the child lives, after being thus driven _ 
into the world before it is matured, it requires the greatest care to 
enable it to drag along its puny, miserable existence; and fr 
this beginning, followed up as is usually the case by continu: 
stuffing it with drugs, this heir of trouble is ensured an after lif 
debility, imbecility and disease. sd x Sepia 
-edtis.a consolation to know, that this humiliating scene of distress, 
which is so often witnessed, is not an inevitable or legitimate atten-_ 
Gant upon child-bearing. It is for the most part manufacinred— 
irsed along by a continual course of mistaken and unnatural treat- _ 
ment. “This Einow-to be the fact from my own experience. Daring - 
the whole course of my practice in. midwifery (which no ene will 
say has been limited) I have. not found a solitary case of dificult — 
delivery. -Usually fr nt 0 to SIX smart pains are sufficient to com- a2 
plete the process; and the ease and facility with which it is ar 
plished, often astonishes, as well as most agreeably disappoints, the 
anxious mother. But I claim no extraordinary credit or skill E 
_ producing this result : the merit of it consists in using no officious’ 
ference, giving few medicines, enjoining healthy exercise, 2 
her easy, and free from all harrassing and unple: 
ions, till the period of full uition | F 
