vantage of many years' practical experience, as well as devoting 

 special attention to the scientific aspect of obstetrical knowledge, 

 will be of marked value to the profession. A perusal of the 

 work under review leads us to the conclusion that not only will 

 it prove a most useful and instructive text book for the student, 

 but it will supply the practitioner with a most valuable manual 

 for reference in the many difficult problems which are so fre- 

 quently presented in the practice of obstetrics. 

 Finally, we may remark that both practitioners and students of 

 veterinary medicine are under a deep debt of gratitude to Profes- 

 sor Williams for placing within their reach a work which repre- 

 sents not only all that is known on the subject, but also the 

 valuable experiences and observations of a master of the art and 

 science of obstetrics, written in a concise and lucid style, leavened 

 by actual practice, and not compiled from the works of other 

 men nor founded on the dreams of the theorist or ' arm-chair ' 

 thinker." — E. Wallis Hoare, irithe Veterinary News, Jmi. i^ , igi8. 



"Those who know the keenness with which Professor 

 Williams has entered into research in connection with contagious 

 abortion will expect something good in this book, and they will 

 not be disappointed. There are too few volumes containing a 

 reasoned and practical survey of the field of obstetrics, written 

 by scientists with wide and plentiful technical experience. 



The man in a busy country practice who has time to read 

 should take this book on his knee in his spare moments and read 

 it through and through. However good an obstetrist he may 

 be, he will find fresh tips, live understanding, and very valuable 

 information in this work. We think sometimes that an intelli- 

 gent understanding of the state of affairs in a pregnant uterus is 

 of more value to the obstetrist than a mere rough-and-ready 

 overcoming of the difficulty presented. This book tells how to 

 accomplish the task smoothly and effectively, with the least 

 injury to the patient and the greatest benefit to the new arrival. 

 We wish the volume every success ; it is a grand one. We look 

 forward with pleasure to a book by the same author on "Diseases 

 of the Genital Organs." 



— G. M. in the Veterinary Journal. 



