Abstract
At the full flow of the tide of the most successful surgery the world has ever known, one must possess a good deal of courage of his convictions to rise in the presence of such a distinguished audience as this, to ever discuss, far less to advocate the treatment of tumors, even the most benign, by any other method than the surgeon's knife. Appearing on the program of this meeting, surrounded as this paper and its author are, by papers and surgeons advocating every kind of surgical treatment, from tying the uterine arteries to removing nearly all the pelvic contents, my position is a peculiarly difficult one; the more especially as I have been trained as a surgeon and now occupy a position as surgeon in several hospitals where I am often compelled by circumstances to treat fibroids by surgical procedures. It is only fair that I should say at
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