Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) PARTURITION WITHOUT PAIN OR Loss of Consciousness. BY JAMES TOWNLEY, Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Fellow and Councillor of the Medical Society of London, F.L.S., Etc. Etc. _SECOND EDITION._ LONDON: JOHN W. DAVIES, 54, PRINCES STREET, LEICESTER SQUARE. EDINBURGH: MACLACHLAN AND STEWART. DUBLIN: FANNIN AND CO. MDCCCLXII. LONDON: SAVILL AND EDWARDS, PRINTERS, CHANDOS STREET, COVENT GARDEN. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. A second edition of my little work being required at the expiration of only a few months is gratifying to me, as evidence that my views regarding the use of an Anodyne in Parturition have attracted considerable attention. I may take this opportunity of stating, that I have never had any intention of undervaluing the merits of others who have laboured in the field of anaesthetics, my only claim to attention consisting in the novelty of my mode of applying the agent, by which its effects are so remarkably modified. When chloroform is administered in the usual way it is given slowly, and "goes the round of the circulation" before it relieves the pain or produces anaesthesia. Whereas, in my plan of using the "anodyne," the rapidly repeated but interrupted impressions made on the nervous system produce the anodyne without the anaesthetic effect--before, indeed, the mass of the blood has become affected. In this consists all the originality to which I lay claim. I have used the word "anodyne," instead of "modified chloroform," in consequence of this peculiarity of its effects. I cannot but regard this as an improvement on the old plan of using chloroform--which relieved pain, it is true, but it produced loss of consciousness also, and was not unattended with danger. _2, Harleyford Place, Kennington, S., October, 1862._ ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION. The following remarks on the administration of an anaesthetic agent during parturition are reprinted from the _Lancet_. I have appended a series of Letters, illustrative of the efficacy of the mode of proceeding I adopt. _2, Harleyford Place, Kennington, S., June, 1862._ PARTURITION WITHOUT PAIN.