year before death, seeming to take advantage of the slight examination to secure insurance when really they were not always eligible. RELATION OF CASES AND MEDICAL NEWS. DR. GESSNER presented the photograph of a negro boy of 20 years, whose external genital was almost completedy hid by an apron scar tissue resulting from a burn.. Treatment had consisted of median incision of the apron, followed by the bringing up of a scrotal flap from each side to cover the totally denuded penis. A gap left between the flaps by cutting out of the stitches had been almost completely filled by Thiersch grafting when the patient deserted A complete cure was expected in this case. (See cuts.) MEETING OF NOVEMBER 14, 1903. DR. GRANER, President, in the chair. Hyperemesis of Pregnancy. At a meeting of the Orleans Parish Medical Society, of July 25th, Dr. Amedée Granger read a paper on the "Electrical Treatment of the Vomiting of Pregnancy "-saying among other things: "And in its intractable form becomes a formidable complication, often necessitating the emptying of the uterus after all treatments have failed, and not rarely causing the death of patients." I add other statistics: Gueniot reports 118 cases with 46 deaths; Delbes reports 62 cases with 30 deaths; Kullenbach reports 116 cases with 48 deaths. Kohl in Kleinwachter denies the existence of any such condition. Carl Braun in the fabulous experience of over one hundred and fifty thousand cases, has never seen a fatal case. Reviewing a number of writers, it is curious to note the great divergence of opinion on the condition under consideration. In Pepper's System, W. W. Jaggard, writing on the "Disorders of Pregnancy," says: "Nausea, oven vomiting in the morning before or shortly after meals during the early months of gestation is so common and devoid of injurious effects that it is regarded as physiological." Robert Barnes regards it as a normal means of |