REMARKS ON MIDWIFERY.

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  SIR,--My small communication in Vol. XII, page 319, of your Journal, has elicited some remarks from gentlemen of talents, who have thrown much light upon a subject which is not only important in establishing medical facts, but also in exonerating the profession from the charge of being instrumental in abridging human life--a charge engendered by ignorance, nursed by avarice, and sustained by prejudice and appeals to the baser passions of mankind. Although I have never felt any compunctions of conscience on account of the treatment of the case there detailed, yet to be countenanced by so many of your valuable correspondents, particularly by the distinguished gentleman of Connecticut, gives me renewed confidence to pursue more zealously the devious path of our profession--a path seldom strewed with flowers--a profession which, though it aims to promote the best interests of mankind, a diminution of human misery and suffering, and the increase of human happiness, yet is but too often rewarded with ingratitude, and reproach.