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1 Eliza W. Pew, Respondent, against Jane D. Robertson, Appellant 1881

handle is hein.trials/abju0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ELIZA W. PEw, Respondent, ) ag'st Appellant's Points. JA'E D. ROBERTsO N, Appellant. STATEMENT. The defendant has for a number of years been en- gaged in the treatment and cure of diseases peculiar to women In October, 1879, the plaintiff, (who was then, and f')r three or four years prior thereto had been suffering from a disease known as engorgement or enlargement of the womb) applied to the defendant for treetment. The detendant in her practice among ladies suffering from the disease aforesaid had always been in the habit of making use of a glass pessary which she inserted in the vagina as a support to the diseased uterus, and by this mode of treatment had cured a large number of ladies suffering from the same difficulty with which the plain- tiff was afflicted. Fols. 23-24-82 to 85-167 to 179. When the plaintiff applied to the defendant as above stated, an examination was made, and a glass pessary inseited as before described. To this pessary was at- tached a string for the purpose of removing it when necessary. And the defendant then and there charged the plaintiff to be sure and remove and cleanse the pes-

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