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Caesarean Section.
Dr. H. H. Witherstine, Rochester, Minn., in The St. Paul Medical Journal, February, 1813, would limit this operation to the following indications:
I. When the pelvic diameters are so diminished that it would be impossible to deliver through the birth canal.
2. When the normal delivery of a living child would be improbable.
3. When myoma exists in the lower segment of the uterus, making version necessary.
4. In certain cases of placenta previa when the danger to mother and child would be greater than by the Cesarean route.
Advice as to Tonics.
Mother-in-law: "The doctor said I was all run down and needed strychnine as a tonic. Now I don't want to take too much. How big a dose do you recommend?"
Son-in-law (hopefully) : "I wouldn't take more than a gallon to begin with.
Hibernian Hemorrhage.
An Irishman was painting a house green when the paint-pot fell to the sidewalk.
A woman chanced by. "Mercy! What's the matter? she exclaimed.
And the small boy standing near shouted: "That Irishman up there has just had a hemorrhage."