The chloroform has always been left off as soon as the child was born, but a little has been administered again on several occasions during the expulsion of the placenta. The placenta has generally been expelled very soon in the labours in which I have given chloroform; usually in about five minutes. There has hardly ever been uterine hæmorrhage of any amount, except in patients who had suffered from it in previous labours. In a case attended by Mr. Nathaniel Ward, however, there was a slight hæmorrhage before the birth of the child, and about an hour afterwards there was a considerable hæmorrhage which made the patient feel rather faint for some hours. She afterwards went on favourably, however. She was a young woman who had had several children. A patient, to whom I was recommended by Sir John Forbes, inhaled chloroform in three confinements. She recovered favourably from the two first; but on the third occasion, after going on favourably till the fifth day, she was attacked with puerperal fever, and died on the seventh day from her confinement. I am not aware that more than one death has been recorded as having occurred from chloroform during labour; and this took place in England, in 1855, when no medical man was present.[151] The patient had inhaled chloroform in America in a previous labour; but her medical man, on the last occasion, who was her particular friend, forbad that agent, and said that if she was determined to have it, he would not attend her. She procured chloroform unknown to him, and a number of scents to put on her handkerchief and hide the odour of it from him. He went to bed in the house, and was not called up till his patient had been dead about an hour. The monthly nurse, who had procured the chloroform for the patient, said that she snored very loudly for an hour after she fell asleep. About five drachms of chloroform were used from the bottle, and the handkerchief from which it was inhaled remained close to the patient’s face till she died. The death seemed to have taken place very slowly, and the monthly nurse was extremely stupid to allow the patient to die. It may also be remarked that the accident would not have taken place except for the medical man’s extreme objection to the use of chloroform.