Causation and Treatment Professor of Obstetrics, Northwestern University Medical School Jos. B. De Lee Published in Medicine (Detroit) 3: 643-660, 1897. The highest mortality that befalls the human race in one day occurs on the day of birth. It is said that the most important period of the life of a human being is the time spent in utero. The most trying ordeal a human being sustains is the ordeal of birth
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