ical Society by Dr. Robert G. LeConte, one of the sur¬ geons to the Pennsylvania Hospital, he related a plan that he and his medical colleague, Dr. F. A. Packard, had carried out recently in a course of seven or eight lectures. The combined lecture occupied the greater part of two hours, a case or cases being exhibited; the etiology, pathology, symptomatology, diagnosis, prognosis, and the medical treatment being outlined by Dr. Packard. Then Dr. LeConte discussed the surgical treatment, which

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... e at once proceeded to carry out before the class. If death resulted, the reasons for failure were pointed out. and the anatomic specimens were demonstrated.