63 from gentlemen in the country, in school-boy holiday fashion, to certify that they, as medical practitioners, have lately resorted to the speculum, with surprising results. This has but little to do with the matter in question-In how much is the employment of the speculum an unmistakable abuse ? Two days since, a young unmarried woman applied to me, in great anxiety, suffering from leucorrhoea, She had been treated by the surgeon who attended the family in which she resided as servant, and who had declared to her, after examination with the