[255] Report to Suffolk District Med. Society, May, 1857, p. 12.
[256] In this connection, I cannot too strongly deprecate a practice that has lately been proposed, the detection, namely, of the early existence of pregnancy by the administration of ergot. (Boston Med. and Surg. Journal, April, 1859, p. 197.) The use of ergot for this purpose, in however small a dose, would seem utterly unjustifiable.
[257] Fifteenth Massachusetts Registration Report, 1857, p. 199.
[258] Quetelet, Theory of Probabilities, p. 234.
[259] New York Med. Gazette, Editorial; London Medical Times and Gazette, 1850, p. 487.
[260] Boston Med. and Surg. Journal, Editorial, 1855, p. 411.
[261] Dean, Medical Jurisprudence, p. 139.
[262] Boston Med. and Surg. Journal, Editorial, Dec. 13, 1855.
[263] American Medical Gazette, Editorial, July, 1857, p. 390.
[264] Ibid., April 1859, p. 289.