[131] A Woman’s Thoughts about Women. By the author of “John Halifax, Gentleman.” 1858, p. 14.
[132] Loc. cit.
[133] Ibid.
[134] Mass. Laws of 1847, chap. 83.
[135] “By imprisonment in the State prison, house of correction, or common jail, not more than three years, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.”
[136] Opera omnia. Ed. 1655, i., p. 643.
[137] Jörg of Leipsic, who speaks of the human fœtus as “only a higher species of intestinal worm, not endowed with a human soul, nor entitled to human attributes.”
[138] Simpson, Obst. Works, i. pp. 352, 404.
[139] Boston Med. and Surg. Journal, January, 1857, p. 462.
[140] The immorality of craniotomy, where delivery can be effected by any other method, is gradually becoming acknowledged in Great Britain. A late discussion on this subject, at the Obstetric Society of London, is reported in the Medical Times and Gazette for February, 1859.