Experience has taught us, however, that it is safe, under proper restrictions, and in uncomplicated confinements, to allow patients to sit up in bed on the 12th and in certain cases on the 10th day, and to get out of bed on the 12th or 14th day. When the patient is allowed to sit up, out of bed, it should not be for longer than one or two hours, and during that time she should sit in a comfortable rocking or Morris chair, which should be placed by the side of the bed. Each day the time can be lengthened, and the distance of the chair from the bed increased. This procedure gives her the opportunity to walk a little further each day, thereby to test her strength and ability to use her limbs. On the fourth day, if all has gone well, she may stay up all day and she may walk more freely about the room. She should be just to herself, however. As soon as she is fatigued she should not make any effort to try to "work it off." When a feeling of fatigue appears she should rest completely. If she has any pain or distress she should acquaint the physician with it at once. She should not try to hide anything on the mistaken idea that "it isn't much." She does not know, and she is not supposed to know what the pain may mean; it may be exceedingly significant. Many women have saved themselves needless suffering, and their husbands unnecessary expenditure of money, by calling the physician's attention to conditions, which in time would have been serious, and would have necessitated long, expensive treatment. LACERATIONS DURING CONFINEMENT, THEIR MEANING AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE.--The only interest a laceration or a tear has to a physician, is whether the laceration or tear is of sufficient importance to need surgical interference. The laceration can take place at the mouth of the womb, or on the outside, between the vagina and rectum. Those of the mouth of the womb always take place, in every confinement, to some degree. They are never given any attention at the time of the confinement, unless under extraordinary circumstances, such as a more or less complete rupture of the womb, and this is such a rare accident [117] that most physicians practice a lifetime and never see or hear of one single case. Those on the outside are always attended to immediately after labor, or should be, unless they are very extensive and the patient is not in condition to permit of any immediate operative work. In such a case it is best to leave it alone until the patient is in condition to have it operated on at a later date.