2. How far the term of Utero-gestation can be shortened, to be compatible with the life (viabilité) of the offspring? 243 3. Whether to any, and to what probable extent, the natural term of Utero-gestation can be protracted? 245 4. What is the value of those signs by which we seek to establish the fact of a recent delivery? 249 5. Are there any, and what diseases, whose effects may be mistaken for traces of a recent delivery? 254 6. Can we determine by any signs whether a woman has ever borne a child, although at a period remote from that of the examination? 256 7. What are the earliest and latest periods of life, at which women are capable of child-bearing? 256 8. What is the possible number of children that can be produced at one birth? 259 9. Is super-fœtation possible, and under what circumstances, and at what period of gestation can a second conception take place? 260 10. What are the causes of Abortion 269 11. Under what circumstances, and by what means, is it morally, legally, and medically proper, to induce premature labour? 271 12. What circumstances will justify the Cæsarean operation, and of what value is the section of the Symphysis Pubis, or Sigaultian operation? 274 Of Extra-uterine Conception 281 Of Hermaphrodites 283 Of Idiots and Lunatics 289 Of Lunatic Asylums 304 Medical and Physiological Illustrations of Insanity 307 1. Whether the person is actually insane, and if so, what are the proofs of his derangement? 317 2. Whether the proofs are of such a nature as to suffer the individual, with propriety, to retain his liberty, and enjoy his property? 321 3. Whether there has been any lucid interval, and of what duration? 322 4. Whether there is any probable chance of recovery; and in case of convalescence, whether the cure is likely to be permanent? 323 Of Nuisances, legally, medically, and chemically considered 330