of the Human Uterus. 101 



cial favour, have had, in relation to themselves, this ma- 

 lediction rescinded, but we know of no women or race 

 of women, savage or civilized, to whom the curse does 

 not extend, " with pain shalt thou bring forth children." 

 When men cease to be mortal, women will be blessed 

 with painless births. 



The text in the English version is very obscure and 

 indefinite ; I therefore have preferred that of the learned 

 Castellio, who, in the opinion of the most able critics, 

 stands among the foremost in Hebrew literature. And 

 it affords me great pleasure to find that the sense of Cas- 

 tellio is confirmed by the Greek* and Frenchf. 



Superadded to what this laborious Hebrician gives 

 in the text, he assures us, in his foot-note, that the words, 

 strictly translated, are " est dolor pariendi." And to it, 

 I am sure, all women, who have borne children, and are 

 in the possession of a sound mind, will most willingly 

 subscribe. 



Dr. Dewees indulges in a most curious annotation on 

 the text as it stands in the English version. He most 

 gravely labours to prove, that the word " sorrow" does 

 not, in any part of the sacred writings, mean an uneasy 



* " In the Greek version, or Septuagint, the word sorrow is ren- 

 dered At/7r*?, which signifies pains or sickness," &c. Vaughan. Med, 

 Refi. vol. 6, p. 31. 



t " Dieu dit aussi a la femme : je vous affligerai do plusieurs 

 inaux pendant votre grossesse ; vous ne mettez au niondc des enfans 

 qu'avec doulcur." French Version. 



