Booth adds that the morning after its discovery the child appeared perfectly well, and some two months afterward was brought into court as evidence in the case.

A remarkable case of infant vitality is given on page 117.
Operations in the Young and Old .-- It might be of interest to mention that such a major operation as ovariotomy has been successfully performed in an infant.

In a paper on infant ovariotomy, several instances of this nature are mentioned.

Roemer successfully performed ovariotomy on a child one year and eight months old; Swartz, on a child of four; Barker, on a child of four; Knowsley Thornton, on a child of seven, and Spencer Wells Cupples, and Chenoweth, on children of eight.
Rein performed ovariotomy on a girl of six, suffering from a multilocular cyst of the left ovary.

He expresses his belief that childhood and infancy are favorable to laparotomy.
Kidd removed a dermoid from a child of two years and eleven months; Hooks performed the same operation on a child of thirty months.