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necessary ground work on which to build the special detail required. There should then be not less than three lectures of one hour each illustrated by diagrams and the display of the actual preventive appliances. Thereafter each student should spend not less than six periods of two hours each at the birth control clinic working with the experienced midwife nurse and doctor in charge and thus gaining practice in the insertion of the necessary caps, &c., and also some understanding of the difficult cases which are of such frequent occurrence among the poor who have become to some degree abnormal through over-childbearing.

I well know how crowded college terms are; and the outcry always raised against any new intrusion into the packed syllabus, nevertheless, those training our future medical practitioners should bear in mind that there is no single health measure so important to the community at large as this.

Such a course is the minimum which in my opinion is essential for every medical practitioner to have passed through while training. Later on a more advanced course of lectures of "Intercollegiate" standard would probably be arranged from time to time for those specializing in either gynæcological or domestic practice.