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110 The nature of our work, which is designed for, compels us to exclude much that is interesting and important to the afflicted mother, as being unsuited to our pages. The reader must not, however, suppose that those matters have been neglected by us. We have, indeed, carefully studied every form of uterine disorder and deformity, and have special adaptations for that woman is peculiarly liable to. The pathology of those stages in her life belongs to the physician; but the special insight into what should give her relief or restore the figure is our business, and where medicine either fails or is useless our work begins.

There is one other matter connected with this subject that we intend to mention, and that is Abortion—a thing which may be reckoned amongst the accidents of life, since it generally arises from some external cause. Among the numerous causes, how­ever, of this accident, related in the works dedicated to this special subject, there is one which, although common, is unnoticed—the tendency of the corset to press downwards! This fact we will briefly explain. Abortion generally takes place between the eighth and twelfth week, which is the time when the fœtus is increased so as to rise above the edge of the pelvic