603 we need scarcely say that the period for cancer is after this age. The development of the new growths seems rather connected or associated with a state of inactivity of the female organs generally in unmarried women, than with the condition of pregnancy or lactation. It would be well, perhaps, to adopt generally the classification laid down at Guy's Hospital, as we thus get rid of an immense number of different and contradictory terms. CASE I.-A very large mammary tumour was removed from

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... female breast, on the 24th of November, by Mr. Lawrence, at St. Bartholomew's. The patient was a young woman, aged twenty-six, and the tumour had been growing three years. Mr. Lawrence told his class that he had never seen such a large growth in this situation before. It could be felt, previous to the operation, as a large, lobulated, hard mass, the size of a very large closed fist, at the lower part of the mammary gland, growing in or against the healthy gland-tissue. During the operation of removal, it proved to be quite a separate part altogether from the mammary gland, and was easily " turned out" of a kind of cyst. It proved to be, when examined by Mr. Paget, one of those adenoid growths which Mr. Birkett so well describes amongst his first division (C), not succulent, but fibrous. This woman, we regret to add, though treated with much care, was seized, a fortnight after the operation, with symptoms of pleuro-pneumonia, of which she died on the 8th of December. CASE 2.-A case of a very instructive kind was operated on,