Dr. C. Truesdale1, of Rock Island, in commenting on Dr. Miller's2 "Laparotomy Record," Writes: "My first impression after reading said 'record' was that it was designed as a travesty on the frequency and recklessness with which the operations detailed in the report have been performed during the past five years; but on a more close examination I am convinced that the author intended it to be accepted as a correct report of what he actually did, and that it would be considered by the profession generally as a very brilliant feat of gynecological surgery. Assuming such to be the case, I am reluctantly constrained to say the report, as a whole and in detail, is simply astounding and to me incomprehensible. Forty-two women spayed, unsexed, mutilated in one year in a small out-of-the-way town in West Virginia!"
In the record, thus forcibly referred to by Dr. Truesdale, Dr.