Pyuria in the Puerperium *Read at a Meeting of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society, 14th February 1934.

Some Major Disorders in Newly-Born Infants *Read at a Meeting of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society, 9th January 1935.

Before I do this, it will be useful to take a general survey of the whole field of neonatal disorder and disease, a survey that is based on an analysis of all the live births in the Royal Maternity Hospital in 1934. An initial difficulty in doing this is that we have no accepted definition of morbidity for the infant in the neonatal period, as we have for the mother in the puerperium. One way o...

The Therapeutic Uses of Progesterone *Read at a meeting of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society held on 14th December 1938.

Radium and Cancer of the Neck of the Uterus *Read at a meeting of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society, 11th March 1936.

My first duty, and a most pleasant one, is to express my sincere appreciation of the honour you paid me in my election as an Honorary Fellow, and when I see, in the Report of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society, the list of Honorary Fellows for the last ninety-six years, the inclusion of my name thereon makes me all the more sensible of such an honour. In 1934 out of every million women alive in ...

Bilateral Cortical Necrosis of the Kidneys—A Clinical and Pathological Report of Four Cases *Read 12th February 1930.

Case I.?Mrs T., para iv, aged 37 years, was admitted to the Royal Maternity Hospital at 9.30 a.m. on 21st November 1927, owing to ante-partum haemorrhage. The only facts which could be elicited regarding her previous pregnancies were that her first puerperium was complicated by white leg and that her last pregnancy had terminated prematurely with the spontaneous delivery of a still-born child?t...

Note on Blood Pressure *Read at a Meeting of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society, 14th February 1934.

DURING an investigation into the cause and treatment of eclampsia, it was noticed that there was an appreciable difference between the blood pressure when the patient was on the back and that taken when on the side. When this had been noticed several times, a routine was developed in order to determine whether this difference was constant at all times, and with different patients. At the end of...