From the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway and Departments of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway (A.C.S., K.M.); Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (C.W.G.R), Radcliffe Department of Medicine (P.L.), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; Department of Maternal Medicine, Institute for Women’s Health, University College Lo...

Dr. Arthur Henry Morse died on January 26, 1950 at the age of 69. He is survived by his wife and two sons. After graduation from Tufts College in 1902 and the Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1906, he served as resident in pathology at the Rhode Island General Hospital. Subsequently, in 1910, he became resident and instructor in obstetrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital and in 1912 resident surgeon a...

In the preface to the First Edition of Williams' Obstetrics published in 1903 the author wrote these words: "I have attempted to set for-th as briefly as seemed to be consistent with thoroughness, the scientific basis for and the practical application of the obstetric art. . . I have endeavored to present the more practical aspects in such a manner as to be of direct service to the obstetrician...

For one who knows neither medical history nor the science of obstetrics to attempt to review such a text is manifestly presumptuous; and yet I suspect that it is for just such persons that the book is in large part designed. Surely the medical historian will have knowledge of the characters herein described, and obviously the obstetrician can not be an obstetrician if he lacks familiarity with ...

This complication of pneumothorax, when it does occur, is most often found in otherwise healthy men between 15 and 45 years of age (Calvert and Smith, 1955). Difficulty may be found in making the correct diagnosis. An acute abdominal condition is not an infrequent "first diagnosis" (Ross, 1952). In our case it was only after the finding of a pneumothorax on chest film that the true nature of th...