Scriptural authority for the mitigation of the pains of labour, by chloroform, and other anaesthetic agents / [With appendix by J.Y. Simpson].

  • Smith, Protheroe, 1809-1889.
Date:
1848
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Credit: Scriptural authority for the mitigation of the pains of labour, by chloroform, and other anaesthetic agents / [With appendix by J.Y. Simpson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    21 three points which I have assumed as a division of my argument, viz.:— I. The grounds on which woman was doomed to bring forth in sorrow. II. The proof that such do not now necessarily exist. III. The conclusion, that the abolition of the pains of labour is strictly in accordance with the will of God. 1. Man, originally formed in the image of God, and consequently faultless, was neither liable to death,5' nor to the sufferings which herald its approach. Though thus sinless, his insufficiency, as an independent creature, to stand upon his own responsibility and in his own strength, was shewn by his failure to keep the one simple law which was given to test his obedience to God. He listened to the Tempter, and became obnoxious to that law which he had broken, and so was subject to death, the predicted “ wages of sin,”f with its black category of ills, diseases, pains, and sorrows : “ For in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die,” or “ dying thou shalt die.”]; The four agents which united to effect this sad change from a state in which every thing was “ very good,” were Satan, woman, man, and the ground “ out of which made the Lord God to grow every tree;” and consequently we find that as the accredited agents of the Fall, and in addition to the primal decree, “ thou shalt surely die,” predh