If these propositions could be engrossed and a copy sent to every doctor in the land, as a safe and sure guide in his treatment of diseases of women, it would prove a great boon to the suffering women of this country. One of the notorious abuses of the profession, is the penchant for the employment of mechanical means, either by means of instruments or the surgeon’s knife. Women are wantonly subjected to painful and tedious treatments which in many cases only aggravate their original suffering, while a few simple rules of hygienic treatment would not only restore them to health and vigor, but would save them the privation of paying fees to incompetent, unscrupulous or avaricious doctors, who have only one ambition, that is, to get the patient’s money. I have known an instance where this barbarous course under the guise of scientific treatment, broke up the home of a once happy and prosperous couple, and finally when the resources were so low that the expense incident to housekeeping and a nurse could no longer be defrayed, the household effects were disposed of, and, as a last resort, the overdoctored woman was taken to a hospital, where her last hopes were lulled into an artificial sleep, while the surgeons performed an operation from which her depleted body and squandered vitality could never recover. She died. I am convinced from observations in large female clinics in Berlin, and from my own studies in the pathological laboratory while a student abroad, that Dr. Bennett’s conclusions are corroborated by actual facts. The freedom with which dangerous operations are undertaken for comparatively trivial complaints is degenerating into a license that is criminal and which in some cases is nothing less than murder. In the absence of a high moral sentiment which should control the profession, but does not, the State must step in and say who shall practice medicine and surgery, and by limiting competition, the evil propensity to make the most of one’s opportunities will not be elevated into a fine art, and men, although unscrupulous, may be at least indifferent honest.