This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ... front. The uterine arteries are thus distinctly brought into view and clamped. His only takes two or three minutes for removing the uterus and some eight or ten minutes more are used in tieing the arteries and closing the opening in the pelvic peritoneum. I had the pleasure of being one of the eight or ten who saw Doyen do two total abdominal hysterectomies for fibroid in Prof. Simpson's service at the Royal Infirmary and he did one of them quite as quickly as the six hundred saw him do it by the cinemetograph. Another interesting figure was Morrianne of Naples, a gentleman very short in stature, about three feet six, but a giant in intellect, who gave an address on Symphiseotomy in French, who was followed by Dr. John Moir of Edinburgh, ninety-five years of age, who told of the improvements in obstetric and gynaecology in his life time. The hottest discussion of the meeting was on Dr. Milne Murray's paper on the use and abuse of the forceps, and incidentally Dr. Japp Sinclair's excellent paper read at Montreal last year condemning the too frequent and too early use of the forceps came in for a great deal of abuse. Dr. Sinclair stated that the forcep was responsible for a great deal of injury to women who were confined in the neighborhood of Manchester. It was evident that the majority of those present at the meeting were general practitioners who used the forceps to save time and did not want to be reproached for causing puerperal lesions. There were several interesting papers on the proper time for removing pus tubes, and the general feeling was that it was safer to operate during the interval than during the attack as is also the case in appendicities. There was also a very warm discussion on the relative advantages of the abdominal and vaginal route fo...