Excerpt from Progressive Medicine, Vol. 3: A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences; September, 1922 If heart failure can be kept in check, pregnancy should go to full time. Labor often develops about the seventh month. The writer was accustomed to give chloroform at an early stage of labor to anesthesia in order to restrain the bearing-down efforts of the patient which tax the heart severely. As soon as possible, the patient is given chloroform to complete anesthesia and delivered by forceps. By this treatment the straining seen in the last portion of labor was avoided. The writer gave chloroform freely to his obstetric patients without trouble. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.