of fifty or sixty, or even seventy, is a work of art. It is worthy of study; and the more it is observed the more it is admired. In that maturity of manly beauty are peace, plenty, and assurance. The student in science or morals may show premature wrinkles, but these lines are not repulsive-they seem to be the etchings of elves engaged in the portrayal of expression. The face as a whole may exhibit the marks of care and sorrow, but they do not detract from the interest centering there. The man of fifty who has not passed through solemnizing scenes, who has not been chastened by untoward events, is a phenomenon, and not representative.

I will not depict a face of fifty, wrung with misfortune, pinched with selfishness, and warped by avarice. Such visages are common as clods, and need no delineation. Cultivated faces alone are worthy of study, for they show a subjugation of the lower instincts, and a forcing to the front of the higher intellectual and moral qualities. A fine face costs a lifetime of good thinking and welldoing; bad features are the result of passive negligence. Every individual is largely responsible for facial expression. The juvenile feature is the sport of time, but the beauty of the mature face is a work of artistic elaboration, the soul officiating as the divine limner-HowE, Miscellaneous Papers.

SOME GYNECOLOGIC HISTORY.

Dr. Walter Burnham, one of Dr. Howe's colaborers, was the first surgeon of modern time who ventured to excise the womb, which he did on June 26, 1854. In view of the fact that this bit of history is generally ignored the following is of more than ordinary interest.— Ed. Gleaner.

SOME GYNECOLOGIC HISTORY.-In no branch of gynecology have such marvelous changes in professional opinions taken place as in regard to ovariotomy. When Spencer Wells visited Boston, some time after he had established the fact that the surgical removal of ovarian cystomata was legitimate, and warranted by the ratio of successful results, there were many reputable physicians in and about the city who, with expressions of disdain, refused to be introduced to him! Dr. Walter Burnham and Dr. Gilman Kimball, of Lowell, and Dr. Horatio R. Storer, of Boston, were branded as unprofessional characters for practicing what had been demonstrated as unsafe and unsurgical. A man who would perform ovariotomy was a quack surgeon not to be recognized. On account of a senseless prejudice, an operation which was first scientifically performed by an American, ovariotomy was driven to Europe for recognition and development.Howe, Operative Gynecology.

John Milton Scudder, M. D.

By

Harvey Wickes Felter, M. D.,

Editor of

The Eclectic Medical Gleaner,

A

Serial Publication of

The Lloyd Library,

Cincinnati, Ohio.