The emergence of pathology in gynaecology.

In this address I propose to recount some gleanings I have made whilst probing the literature and the ideas that were held in past years in the context of pathology and gynaecology. Inevitably, people have to be considered alongside the work for which they are noted in order to do justice to my purpose, and it is advantageous to try to bring together present-day knowledge and those elements from former times that have stood the test of experience. Pathology ofa Surgical Speciality In the early days, as specialist surgeons began to be identified, one supposes that it was only to be expected that the pathology of particular specialities was to be developed by those surgeons and clinicians who concerned themselves mainly with one region or