had been "sleeping," according to her own account, from the time she had begun the inhalation, and thought she remembered or dreamed that she heard Dr. Williamson, the house-surgeon, speak near her once or twice. Dr. Beilby, Dr. Ziegler, &c., saw the case with me. Three days afterwards I found the mother and child perfectly well. She continued to recover so rapidly, that she insisted on leaving the hospital on the tenth day after delivery. A sufficient number of such accounts as these could be collected to fill a large volume; but these are quite sufficient for our purpose. In regard to the objections to using chloroform or ether, in midwifery, it will be thought by most persons, and with good reason, too, that the safety and success which has attended their use, is itself a sufficient answer to all objections. It was at first thought, by some physicians, that the expulsive force of the womb was lessened when the pain was prevented; but this is not the case; on the contrary, it has been, in many cases, much increased. It was also thought by others that there was more danger from flooding, and convulsions, than in ordinary cases; but this is also equally at variance with truth, for it appears, beyond doubt, after a careful examination of all the cases recorded, that there is much _less_ danger, particularly from convulsions, than when the patient is allowed to be tortured and terrified by feeling pain. Dr. Simpson remarks in another part of the article above quoted:-- The question which I have been repeatedly asked is this--Will we ever be "justified" in using the vapor of ether to assuage the pains of natural labor? Now, if experience betimes goes fully to prove to us the safety with which ether may, under proper precautions and management, be employed in the course of parturition, then, looking to the facts of the case, and considering the actual amount of pain usually endured, I believe that the question will require to be quite changed in its character. For, instead of determining, in relation to it, whether we shall be "justified" in using this agent under the circumstances named, it will become, on the other hand, necessary to determine whether, on any grounds, moral or medical, a professional man could deem himself "justified" in withholding and _not_ using any such safe means, (as we at present presuppose this to be,) provided he had the power, by it, of assuaging the pains and anguish of the last stage of natural labor, and thus counteracting what Velpeau describes as "those piercing cries, that agitation so lively, those excessive efforts, those inexpressible agonies, and those pains apparently intolerable," which accompany the termination of natural parturition in the human mother.