Under chloroform the intestines were washed with warm boric lotion and carefully put back into the abdominal cavity. There were a few small splinters of wood found in the su1 perficial wound, which were carefully removed, | and the wound washed clean with warm boric lotion The peritoneum was sutured with aseptic catgut and skin with horse-hair ; thoroughly dusted with iodoform and dressed. Opiu...

for two inches up the vaginal wall. After this the child was born with forceps, and before the placenta came away the wound was carefully stitched up in layers by iodised catgut, bringing the ends of muscle together. The skin was sewed with silkworm gut. He claimed for this incision that it saved detachment of the levator ani from the symphysis and prevented prolapse of the anterior vaginal wal...

necessitate the re-opening of the wound to relieve tension by turning out blood clots. In one of my cases, the patient was a Chaube Brahman, at 32 vears of exceptionally good health, a professional athlete; with' no history of syphilis or any other constitutional taint. The hydrocele was one-sided, fairly large, of five years standing, and it had been tapped from time to time. The operation was...