Before you arrived I was suffering great agony, but you immediately relieved it. The labour went on regularly for nearly five hours without my feeling the slightest particle of pain.
I can conscientiously state that I did not know the child was born till I heard it cry, at the same time being perfectly sensible and able to converse cheerfully with a friend I had with me.
I did not suffer from headache, fever, or any other bad symptom which sometimes follows childbirth.
I consider the process you use in midwifery cases to be, without any exception, the greatest boon which has been, or ever can be, given to woman, and will, I trust, be appreciated as such. I have received the wonderful benefit of it myself, as well as witnessing it in two other cases; one an extremely difficult one, where I am fully convinced that the patient must, in all human probability, have lost her life, had it not been for your beautiful process, whereby she was totally relieved from pain, which must in her case have exhausted nature.
I could add much more in favour of this great boon, but will not trouble you with a tedious letter.
In conclusion, let me offer my sincere thanks to you for devoting your time and talents to the discovery of so wonderful and useful a practice in the most important branch of your profession; and you will, I am sure, be fully repaid by knowing the amount of suffering you have prevented, and, I may also add, the lives you have saved.
You are at liberty to show this letter to any one, or to refer them personally to me.
It is my opinion that too much cannot be said in praise of your beautiful process.
I remain,
Dear Dr. Townley,
Yours most sincerely,
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