THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE EDINBURGH OBSTETRICAL SOCIETY. VOL. XXIII. SESSION 1897-98. EDINBURGH: OLIVER AND BOYD PUBLISHERS TO THE SOCIETY 1898. PREFACE. THIS, the twenty-third volume of the Society's Transactions, contains a record of its proceedings during the Session 1897–98. In it, as in former volumes, the views brought forward in the Papers are to be considered as those of the writers themselves, and not as those of the Society as a body. No meeting of the Society was held in July owing to the presence in the city of the British Medical Association during that month. October 1898. THE EDITOR. EDINBURGH OBSTETRICAL SOCIETY. OFFICE-BEARERS FOR SESSION 1897-98. President. JOHN HALLIDAY CROOM, M.D., F.R.C.P. Ed., F.R.C.S. Ed. Vice-Presidents. ROBERT MILNE MURRAY, M.B., F.R.C.P. Ed. Treasurer. WILLIAM CRAIG, M.D., F.R.C.S. Ed., 71 Bruntsfield Place. Secretaries. JAMES HAIG FERGUSON, M.D., F.R.C.P. Ed., 25 Rutland Street. WILLIAM FORDYCE, M.D., C.M., 20 Charlotte Square. Jibrarian. ROBERT MILNE MURRAY, M.B., F.R.C.P. Ed., 11 Chester Street. Editor of Transactions. JOHN W. BALLANTYNE, M.D., F.R.C.P. Ed., 24 Melville Street. Members of Council. JOHN BROWN BUIST, M.D., F.R.C.P. Ed. WILLIAM NICOL ELDER, L.R.P. & S. Ed. JOHN ROGERSON HAMILTON, M.D., C.M., Hawick. WILLIAM FRASER WRIGHT, M.B., C. M., Leith. PROFESSOR ALEXANDER RUSSELL SIMPSON, M.D., F.R.C.P. Ed. ALEXANDER BALLANTYNE, M.D., F.R.C.P. Ed., Dalkeith. HARRY MELVILLE DUNLOP, M.D., F.R.C.P. Ed. FRANCIS WILLIAM NICOL HAULTAIN, M.D., F.R.C.P. Ed. |