Excerpt from Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery: Delivered in the Theatre of St. George's Hospital There are many other varieties of difficult and complicated labour, in which the unaided powers of nature are insufficient for the completion of delivery, and where the most prompt and ener getic and well-directed treatment is required to avert the danger. Even after the most easy and natural labours, when none of these accidents have occurred, and when all danger is apparently at an end, how often does inflammation of the uterus unexpectedly supervene, and run its course with a rapidity and violence equal to that of plague and cholera.

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