The Clinical Teaching of Midwifery and the Diseases of Women

of these methods, let me say a word on what ought to be done by clinical as distinguished from so-called systematic teaching. Dr Edward Hamilton, late President of the Eoyal College of Surgeons, Ireland, in a recent address on education {Brit. Med. Jour., 16th Feb. 1884), said that " the entire system of lectures demands sweeping and thorough reformation." He thinks that most ex cathedra teaching serves only to cram the head without the least