Case of Fibrous Mole

are of the greatest interest and importance; yet it must be confessed that attention has been paid to them by obstetricians only of recent years, and our knowledge is as yet of the scantiest description. The reason for this has probably been that the interest in such cases has been divided, the obstetrician being specially concerned with the clinical features, and only languidly hitherto in the pathological conditions; while the pure pathologist, of course, not grasping the clinical features, and not being usually an expert in normal placental anatomy, could give only a partial explanation of the conditions found. The only way to settle such points is for the teaching obstetrician and gynaecologist to make up his mind that he must study the pathology himself and not shift it on to the shoulders of others