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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: upon the colon beneath, or how far abnormal states of this organ may add to the vicissitudes of the left ovarian topography, would of course depend upon condition and degree, but there must of necessity, be some relative exchange of influence between them in the pathology of this region. In the neoplasms,...
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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: upon the colon beneath, or how far abnormal states of this organ may add to the vicissitudes of the left ovarian topography, would of course depend upon condition and degree, but there must of necessity, be some relative exchange of influence between them in the pathology of this region. In the neoplasms, disease makes no distinction as to side, of course in that group- of diseases which are consecutive to inflammatory changes, the left side is most frequently attacked, except in disease of the appendix which not infrequently involves the ovary on the right side. Tubal pregnancies would naturally involve the right tube oftener than the left because it is a more fertile field upon which to engraft the nucleus of pregnancy than a diseased tube, so frequent on the left side. It should not be forgotten that, as said before, an irritable right-side ovarian plexus may assume the whole responsibility of manifesting either a pronounced or obscure lesion located upon the opposite side. A. C. S. THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMEOPATHY. Office of the President. Hartford, Conn., November 17, 1906. To the Editor of Progress. The sub-committee of the executive committee, consisting of T. Franklin Smith, M. D., of New York, and myself, went to Norfolk, Va., on November first, and were met by Drs. Curtis, King and Swormsteat of Washington, who came at our request, as it was impossible for the other members of the executive committee to be present, and we were glad to avail ourselves of the advice of these gentlemen. We immediately found the problem before us a difficult one. The institute, you will remember, had voted that the next meeting should be held at Norfolk, or its vicinity, meaning thereby the city of Norfolk or the Exposition grounds themselves. We very shortly learned...