[89]. Dr. David D. Davis used, in his valuable lectures, strongly to reprobate meddlesome midwifery: he justly observed that “accoucheurs were only life-guardsmen to women.” A life-guardsman, while on duty at the palace, does not interfere with every passer-by, but only removes those who obstruct the way.
[90]. Dr. George Smith, of Madras, communicated an interesting case of the kind to the Edinburgh Medical Journal (November, 1862).
[91]. “Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs.”—Isa. xxvi. 17.
[92]. A two-ounce pot of unsalted or prepared lard, as it is usually called, should, previously to the labor, be procured from a chemist.
[93]. And may be procured at any india-rubber warehouse or at a baby-linen establishment.
[94]. Dryden.
[95]. St. John, xvi. 21.
[96]. Dr. Kidd on Chloroform, in the Medical Press and Circular, March 14th, 1866.
[97]. Dr. Kidd, in Dublin Quarterly. Dr. Kidd is an authority on chloroform.
[98]. The Theory and Practice of Midwifery. By Fleetwood Churchill, M.D.