On Dhyes or Native Midwives

Sib,?Most painfully aware of the many instances of suffering and danger to the lives of mothers and their unborn children which not unfrequently fall under the sad experience of medical men, practising either among the natives of the metropolis or the rural inhabitants of the Mofussil, owing to the heedlessness and natural tendency of the general public to put too blind a faith and confidence in native midwives or dhyes, who go abroad in this country with no erudite head or experienced finger, obstructing and subverting, but not aiding and facilitating nature in her process of parturition,?I beg, Mr. Editor, to draw your kind attention to this fact, hoping that the evils arising from this system may be properly laid bare before the public, through your Editorial columns, and