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 8 A recent analysis of all the 'Tiair restoratives" of repute, embracing more than twenty of those professing to "restore the original color of the hair," exliibits the pres- ence of lead in quantities of from one to six grains to the ounce in every one of them, while several contained other poisons. Spinal complaints, neuralgias, paralysis, and very frequently death itself, result from the use of these diaboli- cal contrivances. 9 A caution but little required in this age and country.

10 According to statistics, the proportion of unnatural labors to the whole number is as one to twenty-eight, while in first labors the proportion of deaths among women who have attained the age of thirty is as one to nine.

11 Michel Levy, Traite d' hygiene publique et privee. Paris.

12 Op. cit.

13 A comical scene is told by a physician which occurred many years ago, when a gentleman, ecstatic in the first glories of a father, inquired of us if we had discovered any peculiarity in the hands or feet of the cherub, then lustily responding to the first application of soap and water. We assured him there was "nothing wrong with the baby," but he clearly intimated that "something would he wrong" unless we should discover an odd number of fingers or toes — that none of his family were ever born without an extra number. To satisfy his droll anxiety we made the search