Should an accidental cut be received during the operation, it will be prudent, in all cases, to wash the hands at once, squeeze and suck the part, to favor bleeding, and, finally, touch with a crystal of nitrate of silver. Punctures with a needle or slight scratches which do not bleed are, probably, more dangerous than a free cut; hence, in cases of suspected danger, when a puncture has been received, it would be safer to make a free incision with a knife, thus inducing bleeding, which will favor the washing out of any virus, and finally, use the caustic. =Time for Making the Examination.= As a rule, post-mortem examinations should be made as soon after death as a due regard to the feelings of friends will permit, say within twelve to twenty-four hours; a longer delay would give time for such decomposition as not only to make the examination extremely disagreeable, but, from change of structure in tissues and organs, much less satisfactory. In cold weather, however, or where the body has been placed in ice soon after death, as is the custom in most cities, the examination may be postponed to any convenient time before the burial. =Notes.= In all important cases, notes should be taken down by an assistant, on the spot, as dictated by the operator; heading these by the name and age of the patient and a brief sketch of the disease. In medico-legal cases, this is to be conducted with particular care, as will be pointed out hereafter. =Consent of Friends.= Much difficulty will sometimes be met in obtaining the consent of friends for a post-mortem examination, the idea of the mutilation of the body of the deceased striking many with particular dread. With a little tact and management, however, consent may, in the majority of instances, be obtained. Instead of speaking to a single member of the family and leaving him or her to bring the subject before others, in all doubtful cases it will be better for the physician to see all the interested parties himself, either together or separately, and endeavor to interest them in the case, by pointing out the peculiar character of the disease, the satisfaction which the friends will themselves derive from a verification of the diagnosis of their physician, while, when too late, they may regret having withheld their consent; also the scientific interest which attaches to the case, and the benefit which will no doubt accrue to medical science through a post-mortem examination, and the possibility that the lives of others may depend upon a knowledge of the true state of this case. These, with like considerations, adapted with ready tact to the class of persons to be persuaded, will, in the majority of instances, be enough to overcome all scruples, especially when joined to the assurance that the examination will be so conducted as to leave no visible trace of the operation with which to embitter the remembrance of the well-known countenance.