Right here I wish to say one word: I think it is very wrong to teach, talk and spend so much time with pictures, cuts, talks and lectures, and hold up constantly to the view of the student, births coming from the worst imaginable deformities and call that a knowledge of mid-wifery. It is normal mid-wifery you want to know and be well-skilled in. The abnormal formations are few and far between, and when a case of that kind does appear, it is your knowledge of the normal that guides you through the variations. You will very likely never find two abnormals presenting the same form of bone. As this is intended to only present to the student natural delivery I will let the subject drop with one word about the sore tongue of the mother. Adjust her neck, relieve constrictor and all other muscles that would impede any blood vessel that should drain the mouth and tongue. Remember this, that a horse that is always hunting bugars never finds a smooth road. CHAPTER XVIII. CONVULSIONS. Old Phrases--Results of Stoppage of Fluids--Old Theory of Fits--What the Real Cause may be--Listen for the Cause--What is a Fit--Sensory System Demanding Nourishment--The Causes--The Remedy--Dislocation of Atlas and of Four Upper Ribs. OLD PHRASES. As old phrases that have long been in use as names for the various diseases have almost grown to the degree of disgust, I laid them aside and have been trying and have succeeded in unfolding natural laws to a better understanding, which do and should be our guide and action in treating all diseases that mar the peace and happiness of the human race by misery and death. By such old systems with their foolish and unreliable suggestions, of how to guide the doctor in treating diseases which have proven unworthy of respect, if merit is to be our rule of the weights and measures of intelligence. I have become so disgusted with such verbiage with the sense that follows the pens that have written treatise on disease, that I have concluded to do like Adam of old, give names that may appear novel to the reader when I wish to draw the attention of the student who is trying to obtain a knowledge of the mysteries hitherto unsolved and unexplained. We have panned and washed by their suggestions and have obtained no gold. There are two very large and powerful rivers passing their fluids in opposite directions over a territory that I will call the Klondike of life. This territory is bounded on the east by a great wall, which according to the old books has been called the diaphragm, through which comes forth a great river of life that spreads all over the plains of the anterior lumbar region. On that plain we find a great system of perfect irrigation of cities, villages, and fertile soils of life. RESULT OF STOPPAGE OF FLUIDS.