On the Condition of the Cervix Uteri in the Latter Months of Utero-Gestation

Whiters on diseases of the skin are occasionally wont to state that diseased conditions of the cutaneous system being exposed to the critical eye of the physician ought, of all affections, to be best and most widely known, and yet it is rather the rule to find a lamentable want of knowledge regarding them in the general medical mind. In imitation of these authors, we might say that the cervix being that part of the uterus most readily approachable both for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes, obstetricians ought to be specially well acquainted with its anatomy, physiology, pathology, and therapeutics. But is it not the fact that fully as much un-