physician.. I arrived at the hospital four hours later in company with the well-known gynecologist, Dr. Mendez Capote, who, upon having examined the patient, decided to sew up the lacerations. He washed out the vagina and uterine cavity completely; adjusted with the scissors the edges of the lacerated tissues; sewed up the wounds and touched the ulcer at the neck with a cauterizer; then he gave another wash and plugged with iodoform gauze. When the patient was on the operating table, she had fever, 38.4° C. At 5 p. m. the fever was at 39°; then the vaginal plug was taken out and a great intra-uterine wash of a one-half per cent solution of permanganate was applied very hot in a quantity of five liters. The fever was at 40° throughout the night, and washes were given every four hours. The following day, at 8 A. M., temperature 40°, same local treatment. The fever lasted all day, falling to 39° by the wash, but rose again to 40°. The day thereafter, fever at 41°; same treatment with more vaginal washes of bichloride of mercury, before the uterine washes; the fever keeps on at 41°. On the next day at 8 A. M., [temperature 41.5], I took out the stitches made on the day of confinement, washed well both uterus and vagina, dried the latter with carbolated cotton and conveyed into the uterine cavity eight grammes of pure Hydrozone, taking care that this liquid should flow towards the vagina, into which I poured about 60 grammes of the same liquid and drained the uterus with simple gauze saturated in Hydrozone, while the vagina was drained by the same means. From that time on the fever declined slowly, and at 6 P. M. it was apyretic. The fever did not return and the patient's cure proceeds without further difficulty. This case, which is interesting by itself, proves of great value in setting forth two points; viz.: 1. 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