t interrupting pregnancy, and says
that there are many cases of the removal of venereal warts without any
interference with gestation. Campbell of Georgia operated inadvertently
at the second and third month in two cases of vesicovaginal fistula in
pregnant women. The first case showed no interruption of pregnancy, but
in the second case the woman nearly died and the fistula remained
unhealed. Engelmann operated on a large rectovaginal fistula in the
sixth month of pregnancy without any interruption of pregnancy, which
is far from the general result. Cazin and Rey both produced abortion
by forcible dilatation of the anus for fissure, but Gayet used both the
fingers and a speculum in a case at five months and the woman went to
term. By cystotomy Reamy removed a double hair-pin from a woman
pregnant six and a half months, without interruption, and according to
Mann again, McClintock extracted stones from the bladder by the urethra
in the fourth month of pregnancy, and Phillips did the same in the
seventh month. Hendenberg and Packard report the removal of a tumor
weighing 8 3/4 pounds from a pregnant uterus without interrupting
gestation.

The following extract from the University Medical Magazine of
Philadelphia illustrates the after-effects of abdominal hysteropasy on
subsequent pregnancies:--

"Fraipont (Annales de la Societe Medico-Chirurgicale de Liege, 1894)
reports four cases where pregnancy and labor were practically normal,
though the uterus of each patient had been fixed to the abdominal
walls. In two of the cases the hysteropexy had been performed over five
years before the pregnancy occurred, and, although the bands of
adhesion between the fundus and the parietes must have become very
tough after so long a period, no special difficulty was encountered. In
two of the cases the forceps was used, but not on account of uterine
inertia; the fetal head was voluminous, and in one of the two cases
internal rotation was delayed. The placenta was always expelled easily,
and no serious postpartum hemorrhage occurred. Fraipont observed the
progress of pregnancy in several of these cases. The uterus does not
increase specially in its posterior part, but quite uniformly, so that,
as might be expected, the fundus gradually detaches itself from the
abdominal wall. Even if the adhesions were not broken down they would
of necessity be so stretched as to be useless for their original
purpose after delivery. Bands of adhesion