A Plea for Painless Child-Birth in India
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journal. Should he, by this means, fail to attract attention, his discovery may lie dormant until such time as it is revived by another man more fortunate than himself in gaining the ear of the medical profession. Many such cases have happened in the past, and humanity has suffered in consequence. An example which will occur to every man in India is the drug, emetine. This was recommended years ago by the late Sir Lauder Brunton as a specific for amoebic dysentery, but it has only universally been used in recent years on the recommendation of Sir Leonard Rogers. Great discoveries and inventions have invariably been made by men possessing exceptional powers of observation and deduction. If in 1903 Von Steinbiichel had
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