physician instantly; and, if the regular family attendant is not to be found, the nearest doctor should be brought to the spot.
In case the stream of blood is continuous and alarming, fill up the vagina with a sponge, and Iceep the patient quiet on her back until the physician arrives.
LABOR
Is the inevitable and physiological consequence of preg- nancy. It is a process of pain and suffering. It is a pro- cess that requires all the moral courage and fortitude a woman is capable of.
The woman who bears a child to her husband performs an act which his lifelong love and kindness could not repay. The woman who bears a child to the State gives the legislator to mould the nation, the general to defend her honor, the admiral to span the oceans. The woman who bears a child to her God is an imitator of his creation, and will glory in the light of his love.
Woman is the re-creator and the nurse of mankind. Her sufferings in giving birth to her offspring, her self-abnega- tion in raising and educating it, command man's respect, his admiration, his love, his gratitude.
Beautiful in love, sympathetic in sorrow, she governs his affections, and assuages his pains.
In the throes of labor, she is heroical. On the life of her infant, she sheds tears of joy. In the tenderness of a newly-made mother, she forgets her pains. Her lips whisper thanks to her God; her eyes look with a trium- phant joy upon her husband.
No wonder man loves his mother! If a mother never did anything but give birth to her son, he should love her and be grateful to her forever.
