In the Practitioner for May, Edmund Owen, F. R. C. S., reports a case of the fracture of the femur in which, in spite of the utmost care and treatment, a bad union occurred, as shown by the X-ray, and asks what would be the result had some officious friend had the picture taken and then instituted a suit for malpractice. Would not an eloquent barrister, with the evidence of the photograph exhibiting " the thigh bone and its treatment in all their nakedness, as it were, to a sympathetic jury," have been able to make serious trouble for the surgeon? As the writer says, the public are taking more than a mere idly curious interest in this new illumination of dark places, and the sooner the surgeons realize this fact the better. Although every possible precaution is taken and every resource known to medical science is employed, it can not