On some diseases of women admitting of surgical treatment / by Isaac Baker Brown ; illustrated by coloured plates and wood engravings.

  • Brown, Isaac Baker, 1812-1873.
Date:
1854
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Credit: On some diseases of women admitting of surgical treatment / by Isaac Baker Brown ; illustrated by coloured plates and wood engravings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    endeavouring to devise means by which this disease might be destroyed without an operation dangerous to life. Most of these expedients have been, to a certain extent, successful; but as there are cases in which the most simple means are the most eligible and valuable, so there are others in which the operation for ovariotomy is requisite and justifiable. In the year 184*4, I published in The Lancet my first paper On the Successful treatment of Ovarian Dropsy, without the Abdominal Section/' In discoursing on the various plans for extirpation of the tumour, in the introduction to this paper, I expressed the opinion, that I did not think any of these severe operations were justifiable till this, or a similar plan of treatment, had been tried. It will, therefore, be seen that I have never condemned extirpation, partial or entire, but have only endeavoured to draw attention to other plans less hazardous before resorting to that extreme procedure. In the same year I published further remarks on the same subject, in reply to objections which had been brought against my views. In the year ] 848-9, I wrote a series of four papers, in which I took a review of all the cases, successful and unsuccessful, which had occurred in my practice; and, as I think, completely refuted certain misstatements which had been made in order to depreciate the value of my cases by discrediting the facts; an attempt as weak as it was uncandid, for it happened that one or more of my professional brethren whom I met in consultation on the cases, were eye-vAtnesses of every fact which I had pub- lished. Attempts, not less disingenuous and discreditable, were likewise made to throw doubts on the correctness of my diagnosis, which proved equally abortive. The next two papers (published in 1850) were On the Diagnosis of Ovarian Dropsy; and, in November of the same year, I published a paper On the Treatment of Ovarian Dropsy, by the production of an Artificial Oviduct • and, in 1852, some papers On the Treatment of Ovarian Dropsy, by excising a portion of the Cyst. It will be seen that in the following pages I have endeavoured to institute an impartial examination of the comparative merits b 2