Obstetrics and Gynæcology

inter labial space, with concavity upwards, thus getting a little shelf of mucous membrane'below the urethra to divert escaping urine. By blunt dissection a free cellular space was readily created between the bladder and the rectum to the depth of five inches. This was temporarily packed with sterile gauze to check oozing. Thiersch skin grafts were then cut from the thigh sufficiently large to cover an ample plug made thus : A thin French rubber condom was sterilized by boiling_ and stuffed with long strips of iodoform gauze to its full capacity. Upon this the skin grafts were spread with their edges freely overlapping. Numerous small punctures ?had been previously made in the rubber after stuffing, so that the gauze contents would receive any discharge lurking about. A piece of rubber tubing, the size of one's little finger, wrapped loosely about with iodoform gauze, was now inserted