Aids to Tray and Trolley Setting

work done in the past. This is an experiment which, if it is to be successful , will have to combine all that is good in the old system with the advantages and good points of the new. It is an experiment in which I personally believe the Cinderella of Medicine will become the most attractive branch of medicine. One of the great dangers of State medicine is that it may become impersonal. There is, however, a bond between the doctor who practlses midwifery and his patient which it will take many years of State medicine to sever. This bond is one which is evident in every social class, and the gratitude and loyalty of one's obstetric patients is something which makes well worth while the arduous and exacting character of the work. Midwifery has another great advantage over the other branches of medicine, namely, that it is in the forefront of preventive medicine. The great majority of obstetric patients are normal healthy women, and, therefore, in attending them, one has a positive objective in vlew-to deliver a healthy baby and leave the patient as fit and well when the confinement is over as she was before. Wilfred Trotter said that medicine was in the very small class of professions that can still be called jobs for men. By that he meant "professions in which it is possible for people-men or women-to pursue the dying ideal that an occupation for adults should allow for intellectual freedom, should give character as much chance as cleverness, and should be subject to the tonic of difficulty and the spice of danger." No one can deny that obstetrics is subject to the tonic of difficulty and the spice of danger. Of recent years great political capital has been made of the improved matelnal and infant mortality. If credit is to be given for this improvement which I have mentioned and illustrated it should be to those whose work brought about improved control of sepsis, to those who introduced the sulphonamide drugs and penicillin, and, in no lesser degree, to those innumerable midwives, medical practitioners, obstetric specialists, and teachers who, each in his sphere, has contributed to the welcome and steady improvement which has taken place over the last decade. As St. John Irvine recently said: "A finer race will be raised by those who desire it, but it will not be created by those …