Remarks on the superinduction of anæsthesia in natural and morbid parturition : with cases illustrative of the effects of chloroform in midwifery; and answers to alleged religious objections against the practice / by J.Y. Simpson, M.D.

  • Simpson, James Young, 1811-1870.
Date:
1847
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Credit: Remarks on the superinduction of anæsthesia in natural and morbid parturition : with cases illustrative of the effects of chloroform in midwifery; and answers to alleged religious objections against the practice / by J.Y. Simpson, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    larly human parturition—essentially consists ; and does not specially signify the feelings or sensations of pain to which these muscular efforts or contractions give rise.—And, 2. On the other hand, the feelings or sen- sations of excruciating pain accompanying the process of parturition, are designated throughout the Bible by two Hebrew words which are entirely and essential])' different from that term which is translated sorrow, the oft repeated expression^- in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children. 5. But even if—contrary to what, I think, the whole philological consideration of the very terms and words of the Bible shows to be the case—we were to admit that woman was, as the results of the primal curse, adjudged to the miseries of pure physical pain and agony in parturition, still, certainly under the Christian dispensation, the moral necessity of undergoing such anguish has ceased and terminated. Those who be- lieve otherwise, must believe, in contradiction to the whole sj^irit and whole testimony of revealed truth, that the death and sacrifice of Christ was not, as it is every where declared to be, an all-sufficient sacrifice for all the sins and crimes of man. Christ, the man of sorrows, who hath given himself up for us an offering and a sacrifice to God, surely hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; for God saw the travail of his soul, and was satisfied. And He himself told and im- pressed on his disciples, that His mission Avas to intro- duce mercy, and not sacrifice.—(See Matthew ix. 13; xii. 7 ; also Hos. vi 6). At the end of his commentary upon the curse in the third chapter of Genesis, the sound and excellent Matthew Henry, in his own quaint, pithy, and zealous style, justly observes, How admirably the satisfaction our Lord Jesns Christ made by His