nement at Torquay, packed her
newly-born infant boy in a portmanteau, and started for London. She had
telegraphed Dr. J. S. Tulloch to meet her at Paddington, where he found
his patient apparently in good condition, and not weak, as he expected
in a woman shortly to be confined. On the way to her apartments, which
had been provided by Dr. Tulloch, Mrs. Mullings remarked to the Doctor
that she had already borne her child. Dr. Tulloch was greatly
surprised, and immediately inquired what she had done with the baby.
She replied that it was in a box on top of the cab. When the box was
opened the child was found alive. The Lancet comments on the remarkable
fact that, shortly after confinement, a woman can travel six or seven
hours in a railroad train, and her newly-born babe conveyed the same
distance in a portmanteau, without apparent injury, and without
attracting attention.

Booth reports a remarkable case of vitality of a newly-born child which
came under his observation in October, 1894. An illegitimate child,
abandoned by its mother, was left at the bottom of a cesspool vault;
she claimed that ten hours before Booth's visit it had been
accidentally dropped during an attempt to micturate. The infant lived
despite the following facts: Its delivery from an ignorant,
inexperienced, unattended negress; its cord not tied; its fall of 12
feet down the pit; its ten hours' exposure in the cesspool; its
smothering by foul air, also by a heavy covering of rags, paper, and
straw; its pounding by three bricks which fell in directly from eight
feet above (some loose bricks were accidentally dislodged from the
sides of the vault, in the maneuvers to extricate the infant); its
lowered temperature previous to the application of hot bottles,
blankets, and the administration of cardiac stimulants. Booth adds that
the morning after its discovery the child appeared perfectly well, and
some two months afterward was brought into court as evidence in the
case. A remarkable case of infant vitality is given on page 117.

Operations in the Young and Old.--It might be of interest to mention
that such a major operation as ovariotomy has been successfully
performed in an infant. In a paper on infant ovariotomy, several
instances of this nature are mentioned. Roemer successfully performed
ovariotomy on a child one year and eight months old; Swartz, on a child
of four; Barker, on a child of four; Knowsley Thornton, on a child of
seven, and Spencer