Birth-Ed by Jodi

Birth is old. Science is new.
I walk in both worlds, leaning to the old.
We must assume we actually know very little and TRUST this ancient perfect design.

T. W. W. Wansbrough of Chelsea (London) introduced his ni**le shields to the medical profession in the July 23, 1842, issue of the Lancet. He wrote: "Among the modes of treatment published in The Lancet for this painful and distressing affection, I have been surprised that no mention is made of the leaden shield. I have recommended it for the last thirty years with invariable success, even where half the ni**le has sloughed away before I saw the patient. It is moulded by the plumber from thin sheet lead, over a wooden ni**le, and forms a receptacle for the natural one, which, from the oozing of the breast, is constantly immersed in a solution of lactate of lead, and speedily effects a cure."