Treatment of "Prolapsed Funis"

means of keeping many a " Prolapsed Funis" from returning. There are, in my opinion, objections to it, the chief one being the indelicacy of the position : to keep a lady for some hours on her knees and elbows, or as some recommend on her knees and shoulder, is unpleasant and fatiguing to the patient, and scarcely less so to the attendant. In one case where I attended, the wife of a Railway employe from North Britain flatly refused " to have a Baby like a Goo." Roberton's apparatus is valuable, but has this disadvantage that it is no larger when in the uterus than before it is introduced, and is therefore very likely to come down the way it has been passed up. In two cases I have attended lately, I used an India rubber ball, two inches in diameter, hollow, and such as children often play with. Tli3 balls have one small hole for egress and ingress of air. Through the ball I passed a needle