This is the most recent British combined text of obstetrics and gynecology prepared primarily for undergraduates, with the supplementary hope that it will be useful to more advanced students of this discipline. It aims to give the student a basic survey of both sectors of the field from the vantage point of a single author, and it often succeeds in this difficult task. The complexities of modern physiological advances have diminished the authority of single-authored texts in many areas of knowledge, for no single person can encompass them all, no matter what his scholarly distinction. Nonetheless, as a basic work in the traditional format, this book must be considered successful. About one third of the text is devoted to gynecology and the other two thirds to obstetrics. It is illustrated rather meagerly with line drawings that lack detail and sparkle, except in the case of diagnostic diagrams which are very