lie opinion has a powerful influence, especially the opinion of men. Women dress not for their own comfort, or the health of posterity, but to please their brothers, their lovers, and their husbands. Men could wield a mighty influence for good in this work if they but realized its importance. As man has a more extended field for observation, woman has come naturally to regard his opinions with deference. Women physicians, especially, work here at a dis¬ advantage. With most women, save those in the advance ranks of thought, any suggestion in the way of hygiene in dress is immediately branded as Dress Reform, and straightway the masculine, pantaloontype of radical dress is brandished and they say, " What else could we expect from one who would study medicine?" Woman does not like to be laughed at and called strong-minded. She would rather suffer pain and discomfort in her body than to be wounded in her heart by those whom she loves. This seems a plight-certainly we are warranted in using the word, for never was mortal more plicated, enfeebled, almost inextricably entangled-this seems a plight in which you, my brothers, have a work to accomplish, which no one else can do. Will you do it? LEFT LAPAROTOMY FOLLOWED (A WEEK LATER) BY RIGHT LAPAROTOMY FOR SUPPURATIVE PERITONITIS, Consequent upon Bulimia, Faecal Impaction, Perityphlitir, and Septicaemia. Recovery. Also on the Use of Arsente in Septicaemia. Read before the District of Columbia Medical Society, Janu¬ ary n, 1888.
