1880.] Harris, Cmsarean entertain such an opinion at the present enlightened age, can only be con¬ strued into a visionary hypothesis. The success of the recent modification of the Ctesarean Section by Prof. Porro is truly remarkable and very great. Only four years have elapsed, and there have been forty-nine operations ; and in eleven years fifty, in¬ cluding Storer's. It has certainly instituted an entirely new order of events respecting the Cresarean section, considered as it is by some as

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... e ot the most dangerous of all abdominal operations on the female. It is, how¬ ever, a very singular circumstance, under the present aspect of the Cmsarean section, as to what kind of operation to perform, simple or modified that Prof. Blundell says : " If the Cmsarcan operation be performed on a rabbit in the ordinary way, it. will generally be found, unless I am much mistaken, that the animal perishes in consequence." With his four ex¬ periments and removal of the uterus, three were successful out of the four. The modification by Porro of the " old style," thus far has diminished the death-rate very much. As I stated above, Prof. Chiarahas shown by his last report, which I have quoted, that out of G2 cases lately performed, as before the new departure, only 3 were saved; which is as 1 saved to 21 deaths. By the modification, it has been demonstrated, as shown by the latest record of Dr. Harris, that out of 50 operations there were 20 saved-1 to 2^; if the unfavourable cases are excluded nearly 75 per cent. This record on the human subject would seem to corroborate Blundell's experi¬ ence on animals. Time will, I believe, prove it to be an immense advantage to the parturient woman suffering from these great deformities of the pelvis, and at this early day, only four years since the innovation, the prediction of Blundell has been verified, and his pronunciamento will be accepted as true, that it is "an eminent and valuable improvement in obstetrics." Article IX.