Textbook of Midwifery

professor working in an institution hoary with the best traditions of scientific medicine. Recent works on such important subjects like ' Erythroblastosis Fcetalis'?Penicillin Therapy, etc., have been incorporated for the benefit of students going up for examinations. At the same time the usual paraphernalia of a textbook of obstetrics, viz, the description of the mechanism of labeur, discussion on the toxaemias of pregnancy, prevention and treatment of puerperal infections have also found their places. In the preface, the author says, ' I have also endeavoured to point out the different and often conflicting opinions which are held in various forms of treatmentHis endeavour will be well appreciated not only by those for whom the book is meant but also by others who try to follow his times in their routine work of teaching.