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Curetting the uterus for endometritis, subinvolution, retained products of conception, etc., has come to be a very common operation. It is deservedly recognized as a valuable procedure in these conditions, and accomplishes speedily what local treatment or the exhibition of medicines can not. It needs no argument to prove that unless curetting is thoroughly done, and the material scraped off is removed from the cavity of the uterus, the operation is apt to do more harm than good. I think the experience of the majority of physicians will bear me out in the statement that there is a large element of uncertainty in performing curettage with the ordinary spoon curette. We are never sure, in using this instrument, that we have not neglected to reach some portion of the mucous surface, or that some shreds of tissue have not been left behind to cause trouble. The instrument shown in the