Feb.-9 1884.) THE .PRRJTISH MED2WL-JOURN.AL but the patient's temperature and pulse had fallen to 990 and 100 respectively; and, beyond a little sickness and slight pain, her condition was most comfortable. This putrid discharge continued for several days; but Mrs. S.'s convalescence was steady, and I ceased attending her on August 17th, leaving her, as I hope, radically cured of her rupture, although she will, as a measure of precaution, wear a truss. Among all the advances in abdominal

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... of the present day, drainage by means of large tubes stands, I think, preeminent. Case Ix, ovariotomy, was a very simple case. The tumour was of the left ovary. The right I found slightly enlarged by several small and thin-walled cysts, and I therefore removed it also, although it is questionable whether it would have taken harm if left. No tube was used, and, by the end of the second week, the patient appeared well, but recovery was hindered by inflammation round the stump of this ovary. The temperature rose on the fourteenth day, the bowels