Diseases of the Ovaries

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: - CASES OF INCOMPLETE OVARIOTOMY. The foregoing cases include, as I have before stated, every case, without exception, in which I have completed the operation of ovariotomy. I now add all the cases, without exception, in which I have commenced the operation but have not completed it. In some of these cases...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: - CASES OF INCOMPLETE OVARIOTOMY. The foregoing cases include, as I have before stated, every case, without exception, in which I have completed the operation of ovariotomy. I now add all the cases, without exception, in which I have commenced the operation but have not completed it. In some of these cases it was commenced with the hope that it might be completed; in others the first or exploratory incision was made simply to complete a doubtful diagnosis, or to satisfy the patient and her attendants, as well as myself, that my opinion as to the impossibility of completing the operation was correct. In one case the first incision was made with the express provision that if the cyst proved to be adherent nothing beyond tapping should be attempted. In the arrangement of these cases I have adopted the following order: ? 1. Cases in which the incision only was made. 2. Cases where tapping followed the incision. 3. Cases where some adhesions were separated. 4. Case where nearly the whole of the tumour was removed. I?CASES OF SIMPLE INCISION. Case 1. ? Intra-Abdominal Cystic Tumour situated behind Intestines; Exploratory Incision; Death Four Months afterwards from Spontaneous Rupture of a Cyst into the Peritoneal Cavity. A Single woman, 28 years of age, applied to Dr. Rogers, in February 1857, on account of frequent pain and difficulty in passing urine, which had occasionally rendered the use of the catheter necessary. The catamenia were abundant, but regular, and there was occasional leucorrhoea. Dr. Rogers divyvered a small tumour in the left iliac region, which could A..ti be felt on vaginal examination. This tumour gradually increased in size, and caused much tenderness above the pubes aod in the left iliac region. After four or five months it could be felt mo.