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Silvester Oaks, recalled By Dr. Cushing: Q. Whether in your experience, when called to a woman in the condition that one is reported to have been, and you find her flowing, it is unusual for you to be undecided in your mind whether she is pregnant or not when you are just called to her? A. The matter of flowing is not an evidence that miscarriage is about to take place. It often precedes pain, the pain not coming on when hemorrhage commences. Hemorrhage commences and in a short time there is an effort on the part of the uterus to throw off the foetus, and then pain comes on and the whole case is apparent without even a digital examination. It is not infrequently the case that we have a case of flowing without any pain when miscarriage is approaching; pain doesn't always appear at first. Q. Then you would say that at that stage of things before the uterian pain set in that there was no certainty of miscarriage from the flowing A. Not from