Malarial Influence in Abortion and Sterility †Read at the Indian Medical Congress, Calcutta Dec, 1894.

times of an attack of fever, and in fact in very many cases malaria only showed itself in the habit of abortion. I have also noted that a very much larger proportion of women are sterile in malarial districts than in others, and that if they reside many years this sterility becomes permanent, whereas, if they leave before too long a time has elapsed, they bear children. Of course, in thia latter class I do not include those who, miscarrying in malarial districts, bear children in non-malarial climates Perhaps, as this paper has to be short, the quoting of two typical cases will be sufficient. 1 would like the experience of others in malarial districts on this subject, as I think its importance is not sufficiently impressed. Mrs. G. had frequent miscarriages in the plains. She was constantly in malarious districts. She was treated by various surgical and medical measures, including scraping out the uterus both in India and London. On her return to a malarious district, however, she invariably miscarried?generally in the third month. I saw her early in her fifteenth preg-