Induction of Labour *Read at a Meeting of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society, 10th February 1937.

Presidential Address: "Thoughts on the Life and Work of Sir James Young Simpson" *Read at a Meeting of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society, 11th November 1936.

Some Observations on the Management of the Third Stage of Labour *Read at a meeting of the Obstetrical Society of Edinburgh on 12th February 1936.

I TRUST that a discussion on the management of the third stage of labour will not prove to be devoid of interest, for the matter is one of importance to both the parturient woman and her attendant, whether the latter be midwife or doctor. That controversy has ranged round the proper conduct of the third stage is common knowledge to all who have studied the older obstetrical works, but it may no...

An Aid in the Prevention of Puerperal Sepsis *Read at a Meeting of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society on 10th February 1932.

clinical experiments have been conducted since the year 1927 sufficient time has elapsed to treat a large number of cases and estimate the value of the method in preventing puerperal sepsis. To enable you to judge the influence of the treatment as well as the type of case dealt with I have distributed leaflets among the members of this society and for purposes of reference these have been label...

Puerperal Gangrene *Read at a Meeting of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society, 10th March 1937.

Peripheral gangrene is, fortunately, a very rare complication of pregnancy and the puerperium. Stein (1916) describes two personal cases and reviews the literature on the subject. In both the cases he describes puerperal sepsis was present ; a severe infection in one patient in whom symmetrical dry gangrene involved both feet. He suggests that the symmetrical gangrene was caused by a thrombus m...

Struma Ovarii, with Report of a Case *Read at a Meeting of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society, 10th June 1936.