General and differential diagnosis of ovarian tumors : with special reference to the operation of ovariotomy and occasional pathological and therapeutical considerations / by Washington L. Atlee.

  • Atlee, Washington L., 1808-1878.
Date:
1873
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    would have been the gainer, and that his own record would have been better. Matured as his judgment has been by many years of experience and of observation, the repetition of most of the errors is now impossible, while a retrospective view satisfies him that he has left undone many things that ought to have been done, and has done many things that ought to have been left undone. Per- haps he can make amends for these sins of omission and commission in the past in no better way than by guard- ing his professional brethren from similar errors by pre- senting to them this volume on Diagnosis. Ovariotomy having now fairly passed through its pro- bationary career, and taken a position among the estab- lished operations of surgery, a Treatise on the General and Differential Diagnosis of Abdominal Tumors may not be considered untimely. It properly should precede the consideration of the surgical treatment of such tumors. For this reason, and to meet the demands of the profes- sion, the author issues it as volume first, intending to follow it, as promptly as his engagements will permit, with a second volume, comprising cases and their man- agement. While an occasional reference is made to pathology and therapeutics in discussing differential diagnosis, a chapter [XXIII.] is specially appropriated to the pathology of the principal varieties of cysts of the ovary. This portion of the work was assigned to