Obstetric Memoranda

For some years past I have kept a register of all the midwifery cases that have occurred in my own practice, and also those to which I was at any time called by other practitioners; during which period I have been in the habit of carefully noting any peculiarity which distinguished any of them from what are denominated natural cases. Of these last I have only thought it necessary to note the patient's age, the number of children previously borne, the presentation, and the sex of the infant. I do not, however, profess to have drawn out these notes with anything like statistical minuteness, and am fully sensible of their manifold deficiencies. I only wish them to be regarded as a crude collection, calculated to confirm, in some small degree, the results deducible from the more elaborate researches and observations of others. I may here observe, that not deeming it advisable to burden the