This Effect of X-Light on the Crystalline Lens

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when it has been put in through a bivalve speculum with the patient on her back.With respect to the treatment of placenta previa by Cicsarean section I have yet to see a case in which I think it would be advisable or justified, and such will, in my opinion, be rarely seen.The only occasion for Cicsarean section in pla- centa previa I would define as in my former paper : complete placenta previa witli mother and child both in good condition before the occurrence of severe hemorrhage, and with the os uteri undiluted.This short paper, practically as it stands, was prepared for the meeting of the Obstetrical Society last October, but was deferred because of other material.Since then I have had one operation for placenta previa at the Boston Lying-in Hospital, which proved fatal to the mother, the first one in twenty cases.The patient, a young primípara, was seen on the afternoon of Dec. 4.She had had considerable