from pregnancy and power by rickie solinger p. 75
Dr. Smith, 1874: "I know three married women, respectable ones, who are notorious for giving instructions to their younger sister as to the modus operandi for 'coming around.' After the failure of tansy, savin, ergot, cotton root, lifting, rough trotting horses, etc., a knitting needle is the stand by. One old doctor near here was so obliging as to furnish a wire with a handle, to one of his patients, which did the work for her, after which she passed it to one of her neighbor, who succeeded in destroying the foetus and nearly so herself."
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