OBSTETRICS AND GYNÆCOLOGY

Edwin Williams (Memphis Lancet, February 1899) reports the case of a primipara who had a normal delivery and forty-seven hours later had a slight rigor, the temperature rising to 100o-5, and the pulse to 106, with severe cramping pains in the uterus. It was determined to curette, but before doing so a bimanual examination was made, and immediately afterwards a crushed 2-months' foetus was expelled. A thorough examination was made, when it wras found that the uterus was divided into two unequal parts by a septum about in. thick, extending from the internal os to the fundus. Each tube and ovary communicated with one side of the uterus only, and the larger cavity occupied about four-fifths of the uterus.