M.K.Q.C.P.I.; Member of Council R.C.S., and of the Surgical Section of the Academy of Medicine; Past President, R.C.S.; Surgeon
and Lecturer on Clinical and Operative Surgery, City of Dublin Hospital, Consulting Surgeon to the National Lying-in Hospital.
Read before the Surgical Section of the Academy of Medicine in Ireland, Friday, December 10, 1886. [For the Discussion on
this paper see page 292.]