Bilateral Cortical Necrosis of the Kidneys *Read at a Meeting of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society, 8th March 1933.

The Presence and Effect of the Ovarian Hormones and Gonadotropic Substances *Read at a Meeting of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society, 13th December 1933.

Bilateral Cortical Necrosis of the Kidneys—A Clinical and Pathological Report of Four Cases *Read 12th February 1930.

Case I.?Mrs T., para iv, aged 37 years, was admitted to the Royal Maternity Hospital at 9.30 a.m. on 21st November 1927, owing to ante-partum haemorrhage. The only facts which could be elicited regarding her previous pregnancies were that her first puerperium was complicated by white leg and that her last pregnancy had terminated prematurely with the spontaneous delivery of a still-born child?t...

An Effect on the Rat of Antenatal and Postnatal Administration of Œstrin *Read at a Meeting of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society, 8th May 1935.

occurrence suggested that a connection existed between the administration of cestrin to the mother and the abnormality of the offspring. A prolonged series of experiments has demonstrated that the female fcctus is indeed affected in its morphological development by the antenatal administration of cestrin to the mother late in pregnancy. There appears to be only one instance in the literature of...

Therapeutic Abortion with Special Reference to Methods of Induction *Read 8th June 1927.

year at the annual meeting of the British Medical Association and has been the subject, either directly or indirectly, of two papers to this Society within recent years. In 1925, Professor Rankine Lyle read a paper before us on the Conservation and Destruction of Intrauterine Life, in which he put forward a very strong thesis in favour of conservation always and destruction never. As a side lin...

The Principles of Irradiation Treatment in Carcinoma of the Cervix *Read at a Meeting of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society, 8th January 1936.

k ea of the meaning of this unit, but this must of necessity e only approximate as the full definition is too complex to e discussed here. ^ *s WeH known that X-rays or radium rays have the power penetrating or passing through tissue. If, however, the thCr^ ^nc^ent beam be measured and compared with energy of the emerging beam it will be found that a certain !Tl0unt of energy has been absorbed....