Summaries of Addresses in in Obstetrics, Surgery and Ophthalmology and Military Medicine and Surgery

Surgeon-Major Dimmock gave an introductory address on the subject of forms of puerperal fevers in India. The introductory part of the address dealt with the importance of the work of the Countess of Dufferin Fund which was paving the way to a better knowledge of the science of midwifery and the diseases of women and children in India, in which there had not been so much advance as in general medicine and surgery. The effects of tropical climates, races, and other circumstances were considered, and the particular power of puerperal fevers associated with malarial fevers of the quotidian, tertian, quintidian, and remittent types with pyrexia, weredescribed and illustrated by cases and chalks. The form of puerperal fevers of the dysentric, thermic, and other unknown type were also referred to. A proposal was made to