In order to afford some notion of the frequency with which fibroids cause trouble to pregnant and parturient women, I have collected thirty-six cases which have been reported to the London Obstetrical Society from 1900 to 1908 (both years inclusive), and arranged them in the subjoined tables: they show in an unmistakable way that pregnant women with fibroids do often require aid from surgery, and that such efforts are rewarded with success. There is no condition which simplifies hysterectomy so much as pregnancy. A TABLE OF CASES IN WHICH ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY WAS PERFORMED FOR PREGNANCY COMPLICATED WITH FIBROIDS These cases are recorded in the _Transactions of the Obstetrical Society_, 1900-8, both years inclusive. ------------+---------+--------------------+--------+----------------- | _Age | _Period |_Result | _Reference _Recorder._| of | of | to | to |Patient._| Pregnancy._ |Mother._| Volume._ ------------+---------+--------------------+--------+----------------- Horrocks | ? |5th month | ? |1900, xlii. 242. Routh | 33 |33 weeks | R. |Ibid., 244. Doran | 40 |5th month | R. |1901, xliii. 178. Donald | 43 |9th month | R. |1901, xliii. 180. Donald | 34 |4th month | R. |Ibid. Donald | 34 |4th month | R. |Ibid. Donald | 41 |4th month | R. |Ibid. Routh | ? |8-1/2 months | R. |1902, xliv. 41. Doran | 39 | ? | R. |1904, xlv. 119. Doran | 30 |4th month | R. |Ibid. Doran | 30 | ? | R. |Ibid. Boyd | 42 |8th month | D. |Ibid., 106 Boyd | 40 |3rd month | R. |Ibid. Fairbairn | 22 |5th week post partum| R. |Ibid., 194. Doran | 38 |4th week post partum| R. |1904, xlvi. 274. Taylor | 33 |3rd month | R. |1905, xlvii. 333. Andrews | ? |3rd day post partum | R. |Ibid., 4. Lea | 39 |7th week post partum| R. |Ibid., 1 Boyd | 42 |4th month, total | R. |1907, xlix. 49. Bland-Sutton| 39 |4-1/2 months | R. |1907. Dauber | 31 |3rd month | R. |1908. McCann | 25 |4-1/2 months | R. |Ibid. Spanton | 33 |2-1/2 months | D. |Ibid. ------------+---------+--------------------+--------+----------------- TABLE OF CASES IN WHICH ABDOMINAL MYOMECTOMY WAS PERFORMED DURING PREGNANCY From the _Transactions of the Obstetrical Society_, 1900-8, both years inclusive.