Fibroid Tumours of Uterus

Gentlemen,?Fellows of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society,?We constitute to-night the first meeting of the thirty-seventh session of our Society. The special department of medicine which we cultivate must have some peculiar power to interest its followers and inspire them with enthusiasm, when it can call together fortnight by fortnight, year after year, such a goodly gathering of the busiest practitioners. It has often struck me as something remarkable that where it was a question of forming imposing Corporations with splendid halls and libraries, and museums, and sumptuous annual dinners, and having power to issue licences and confer qualifications?the Physicians and the Surgeons should each require to found their separate College. The Obstetrician must sink his