Cold and hot baths, Turkish and Russian baths, hot sitz-baths and ocean bathing are not permissible during gestation. Tepid baths and spongings are to be substituted. Near term the bath-tub is not safe because of danger of uterine infection from unclean water. Then shower-baths are better, but these are dangerous if the woman must step over an enameled bath-tub side to take them, because she may slip and fall. Vaginal douches are not to be used in pregnancy except in certain diseased conditions, under the direction of a competent physician. Therapeutic abortion and therapeutic induction of premature labor are employed in five chief groups of conditions: (1) contracted pelvis; (2) diseases caused by pregnancy; (3) diseases coincident with pregnancy; (4) habitual death of the child after viability but before term; (5) prolonged pregnancy. There is no such act as therapeutic abortion of an inviable child; all abortions of inviable children, when direct, are criminal, and nothing criminal is therapeutic. The consideration of narrow pelvis, and the diseases caused by pregnancy and coincident therewith, will be treated in detail. When the child dies after viability but before term the cause is most commonly syphilis. In such cases a Wassermann reaction should be made from both parents; and even if it is negative, and no other definite cause for the fetal death can be found, syphilitic treatment should be tried on the father and mother. Bright's disease, even when scarcely diagnosable, anemia, diabetes, adiposity, and hypothyroidism are other lethal causes of habitually still-born infants. Not seldom the cause is in the husband. If he is an alcoholic (and two or three drinks of whiskey a day make any man an alcoholic), if he is especially susceptible to the toxin of tobacco (and tobacco alone may render some men not only sterile but impotent), if he is a worker in poisonous metals, an X-ray operator, a user of narcotics, exhausted with overwork and worry, affected with weakening systemic disease, his germ-cells are unfit for their function. Such men are not technically sterile, but they are practically sterile. Some women carry the child beyond term, with the effect that the baby is overgrown for normal delivery. The head is harder and more angular than it should be, the long bones stiffer and less pliable, the muscles tenser. All these changes make the delivery so difficult that the overgrown child may be fatally injured at birth. Physicians must be cautious in believing histories of enormous children at previous births at which they were not present. Mothers and nurses are likely to exaggerate the size of infants.