The problem how best to comminute the foetal head is not yet solved. It is not to be reckoned among the problems of prime importance in obstetrics that wait their solution. Improved hygienic conditions have been lessening the kinds of disease that lead to the pelvic deformities which formerly oftener necessitated the sacrifice of the child; whilst the induction of premature labour, improvements...

Carcinomas of the uterine fundus occur more frequently among women showing unusual production of estrogenic hormone than in normal women (15). Although there is less evidence of a correlation of abnormal production of estrogens and tumors of the uterine cervix, at least one investigator has reported that deficiencies of vitamins, with possible coincident impairment of estrogen inactivation, was...