Statistics of Two Hundred and Fifty Consecutive Midwifery Cases in Private Practice

as yet, no satisfactory data of this kind are procurable on a large scale." He elsewhere states his opinion that this is a very questionable source of information for various reasons; for example, because the memory is a frail and treacherous source of statistics, and, above all, because medical men " have an indisputable tendency, and an inalienable right, to say nothing of what looks like want of success. Suspicion naturally attaches to data remarkable for apparent success." Now, in submitting this series of cases to the Obstetrical Society, I desire, in the first place, to say that I offer them as a very humble contribution to those statistics which Dr Duncan thinks