our women after one or two births — does modern medicine approve the use of the binder after delivery, to prevent sagging and muscular slackness?

A — No; the modern trend, rather, is training in physical exercises from the second day after delivery, and early walking, which helps to move the muscles and thus prevents the sagging of the abdomen. As for the old binder, there is no longer any need of it.

Q — I think, Dr. Abouchdid, you have given the subject of "care of the pregnant woman" its due; let us pass now to the other field which progress in gynecology has reached — what is this second field which you mentioned at the beginning of the talk?

A — As for the second field with which modern gynecology has concerned itself, it is the detection of cancer in women while it is still at a very early stage, so that they are able to treat it and remove it, thereby guaranteeing the woman a better result and a longer healthy life, and sparing her many of the pains which usually afflict her when the disease grows severe.

Q — And how, Doctor, can cancer be diagnosed in regions hidden from the eye, especially if the disease, as you said, is still not visible to sight?...

A — Modern medicine has suc-ceeded in diagnosing cancer while it is still in the stage of formation, by seeing the microscopic cancer cells in the vaginal fluids and else-

where. The practical method now followed in America is that women who have reached thirty-five years of age go and submit to a micro-scopic examination, carried out on them in special clinics prepared for this purpose, every six months.

Q — And is there in Lebanon any readiness for this?

A — Unfortunately there do not yet exist in Lebanon any clinics, private or public, that attend to this side of things; for this method entails heavy expenses which none but governments or the great institutes with huge budgets can bear. And the benefit that comes of these examinations is very great, for the cancer cells appear in the fluids as soon as the disease establishes itself, and its discovery at the early stage very often