That part of the work being completed, that most depended upon the efforts of _Nature_, it becomes your duty to promote your own interest by every exertion of _art_. Should, after your departure, any _hemorrage_ ensue, inevitable danger will be apprehended, the patient will be reduced, the friends alarmed, and you, in the moments of dreadful anxiety, be immediately sent for; this _lucky circumstance_ will operate to your earnest wish; it will afford ample scope for your most fertile invention, and happily introduce a long list of _styptics_, _anodynes_, and all those necessary concomitants that give a profitable complexion to the business, by enlarging your hopes, protracting the case, and encreasing the danger. However, should this favourable circumstance not occur, your privilege is by no means curtailed; you immediately commence your previous intentional operation of dispatching a _sufficiency_ of _balsamic anodyne_ draughts, “to promote and mitigate the severity of _after pains_, that very much distress the patient.” These draughts should be continued every _four hours at least_, and as a sufficient quantity of that excellent (and cheap) medicine, _spermacæti_, cannot be well dissolved in each draught, without rendering it too viscid in consistence, it will be peculiarly advantageous to you (as well as the patient) to let them be accompanied with _boluses_ to be taken at the _same time_, composed of _pulv. sperma_—_confect. alkermes_, &c.—Let the administration of these medicines be entirely regulated by the temper, docility, and recovery of your subject; having it ever in mind, that it is neither your duty or interest to make the least observation upon their being no longer necessary, till their frequent use is complained of by the patient sufferer; and even then you are favoured by fortune in a plea, that you “are now under the absolute necessity of making unavoidable alterations for the prevention of the _milk, or puerperal_ fever, which you very much apprehend may ensue.” That it is an invariable rule with you, never to recommend the use of medicines, but where they are highly necessary; in the present instance, it is your duty, from the motive of _gratitude_, to be equally circumspect, for the promotion of _her health_ and your _own reputation_.