Abortion and miscarriage. Causes of abortion, fetal, maternal and paternal. Surgical operations and abortion. The debitum in pregnancy. Premature labor. Threatened, inevitable, and incomplete abortions. Treatment. The use of the tampon. Precautions against abortion. Therapeutic abortion. Methods of inducing abortion. Artificial abortion of an inviable fetus is never licit. Decrees of the church concerning abortion. The civil law on abortion 92-123 CHAPTER VI ECTOPIC GESTATION Ectopic gestation or extrauterine pregnancy. Anatomy of the uterus and its adnexa. Place of fecundation. The abnormal uterus. Tubal rupture and tubal abortion. Diagnosis. Decrees of the church on ectopic gestation. Removal of an inviable ectopic fetus except in present peril of life is illicit 124-132 CHAPTER VII CESAREAN DELIVERY Indications for cesarean delivery. Abnormal pelves. Symphyseotomy. Varieties of cesarean delivery. Morality. Amputation of the uterus after cesarean delivery. Precautionary sterilization of a cesarean case is illicit 133-142 CHAPTER VIII PLACENTA PRAEVIA AND ABRUPTIO PLACENTAE Nature and effects of placenta praevia. Treatment. Morality and methods of treatment. Abruptio placentae. Morality of fetal removal 143-146 CHAPTER IX ABDOMINAL TUMORS IN PREGNANCY Tumors blocking parturition. Fibroids or myomata. Ovarian tumors. Cancer. Effects and morality of operation 147-152 CHAPTER X APPENDICITIS IN PREGNANCY Occurrence. Time of operation. Diagnosis 153-154 CHAPTER XI PUERPERAL INSANITY AND STERILIZATION Causes. Varieties. Prognosis. Precautionary sterilization of puerperal psychopaths is illicit 155-157 CHAPTER XII NEPHRITIS IN PREGNANCY Frequency. Effects. Abortion as a treatment. Varieties of nephritis. Pyelitis. Catalepsy 158-161 CHAPTER XIII ECLAMPSIA PARTURIENTIUM Definition. Symptoms. Prognosis. Causes. Precautions against eclampsia. Forced delivery. The expectant treatment. Relative mortality and morality of the methods. Cesarean delivery as a treatment. The expectant treatment is apparently the best 162-169 CHAPTER XIV HEART DISEASES IN PREGNANCY Factors in abnormal gestation. The use of pituitrin. Weak pains and the diseased heart. The diseased heart in actual parturition. Operative risk in cardiopaths. Heart block and mitral regurgitation in labor. Prognosis 170-176 CHAPTER XV HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM Pernicious vomiting. Occurrence. Symptoms. Stages. Effects. Causes. Therapeutic abortion in pernicious vomiting. Treatment 177-181 CHAPTER XVI CHOREA GRAVIDARUM AND HYSTERIA