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were given, morning and evening, till the I9lh, when 

 medical attention became unnecessary. 



The friends of the patient, my pupils, and myself, 

 united in ascribing the removal of the spasms to the 

 enemata of tobacco. And the purgatives contributed 

 very evidently to favour and promote convalescence. 



I am yours, &c, 



P. R. Rogers. 



XII. Miscellaneous Observations on the Natural History 

 of the Human Uterus. By Dr. David ge, of Bal- 

 timore. In a letter to the Editor. 



Dear Sir, 



IN my last I gave a promise, that, in this my 

 subsequent speculation, I would restrict my pen to la- 

 bour ; to the symptoms proper to labour ; and to the 

 forces by which it is effectuated : that I would endea- 

 vour to demonstrate labour to be morally and physically 

 painful ; and this, from the present condition of huma- 

 nity, to be of necessity, and not of contingence. I more- 

 over promised, and in this the promise chiefly consisted, 

 to demonstrate the inadmissibility, in ordinary, natural 

 labours, of the use of the lancet ; that, in ninety-nine out 

 of the hundred ordinary labours, it must be productive 

 of unpleasant consequences to the parturient patient, and, 

 when copiously used, it must retard labour. I now take 

 up my pen to fill up the measure of my promise 



