REEVE, J. C., M.D., Dayton, Ohio, Formerly Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Medical College of Ohio. SKENE, ALEXANDER J. C., M.D., Professor of Gynæcology in the Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, and in the Post-Graduate Medical School of New York. STELWAGON, HENRY W., M.D., Physician to the Philadelphia Dispensary for Skin Diseases; Chief of the Skin Dispensary of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. STRAWBRIDGE, GEORGE, M.D., Clinical Professor of Otology in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. THOMAS, T. GAILLARD, M.D., Clinical Professor of Diseases of Women in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York; Surgeon to the New York State Woman's Hospital. TYSON, JAMES, A.M., M.D., Professor of General Pathology and Morbid Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania; Physician to the Philadelphia Hospital, Philadelphia. WILSON, JAMES C., A.M., M.D., Physician to the Philadelphia Hospital, and to the Hospital of the Jefferson College; President of the Pathological Society of Philadelphia. ILLUSTRATIONS. FIGURE PAGE 1. THE CLASSICAL REPRESENTATION OF THE PELVIC ORGANS . . . . . . 148 2. THE CORRECT REPRESENTATION OF THE PELVIC ORGANS . . . . . . . 149 3. FIRST DEGREE OF PROLAPSE OF THE POST-PARTUM UTERUS . . . . . . 155 4. SHOWING EXTREME DESCENT OF THE UTERUS AND OF THE PELVIC FLOOR, AND THE HERNIAL CHARACTER OF THE LESION . . . . . . . . . . 156 5. DESCENT OF THE VIRGIN UTERUS INTO THE VAGINAL CANAL, SHOWING THE REDUPLICATED VAGINAL WALLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 6. DESCENT OF THE UTERUS, SHOWING EXCESSIVE CIRCULAR ENLARGEMENT OF THE LACERATED CERVIX, CONSEQUENT UPON REDUPLICATION OF THE VAGINAL WALLS AND OUT-ROLLING OF INTRACERVICAL TISSUES . 158 7. THE EMMET CURVES (PESSARY) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 8. THE ALBERT SMITH CURVES (PESSARY) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 9. THE FIRST SUTURE BEFORE TWISTING IN EMMET'S OPERATION IN PROCIDENTIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 10. FOLDS ON THE ANTERIOR VAGINAL WALL FORMED AFTER TWISTING THE FIRST SUTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 11. EMMET'S OPERATION FOR PROCIDENTIA AND URETHROCELE COMPLETED . 163 12. DIAGRAM OF EMMET'S OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 13. THE SUTURES IN PLACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 14. THE VAGINAL SUTURES TWISTED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 15. EXTREME RETROFLEXION, WITH HYPERTROPHY OF THE CORPUS . . . . . 167 16. COMMENCING REPOSITION OF THE RETROVERTED OR RETROFLEXED UTERUS BY CONJOINED MANIPULATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 17. COMPLETED REPOSITION OF THE RETROVERTED OR RETROFLEXED UTERUS BY CONJOINED MANIPULATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171