From the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, State University of New York, Kings County Medical Center, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Presented at the 15th Annual Clinical Meeting of The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Washington, D. C., Apr. 15-20, 1967.

The illustration at the top of the page is “Two Doctors in Discussion,” from Treatise Against All Pestilence and Tainted Air by Alonso Espina, published in 1518 in Valladolid, Spain. (The Bettemann Archive)