Correspondence with T. Spencer Wells... on ovariotomy.

  • Wells Spencer, 1818-1897.
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1882
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    Mr. T. Spenoer Wells quote the assertiou, that, before he, Mr. T. Spencer Wells, began his work in 1858, “ Ovariotomy was then as an operation simply nowhere.” 1 The British Medical Journal of June 19, July 3, 17, 34, 31i Aiegust 7, 21, 28, and September 4, c^-c., 1880, contains Leaders mi OvaHotomy by the Editor, and Letters on Ovariotomy by Dr, Charles Clay, Mr. T. Spencer Wells, F.R.G.S., “ Auator,” Dr. Thomas Keith, Dr. A. S. Currie, Mr. Lawson Tait, F.E.C.S,, Dr. W. Woodham Webb, and Dr. G. S. Keith, S,'0. Dr. Gluirles Clay states in the above Correspondence,—“ In my opinion. Vivisection has no more to do with advancing the success of Ovariotomy than the Pope at Rome. I agree loith what Sir William Fergueson e.vpressed in 1875 ; ‘ That in Surgery he was not avjare of any of these Experiments on the lower Animals having led' to the mitiga- tion of pain, or to improvement as regards Surgical details. The above-mentioned Controversy in the columns of the British Medical Jemrnal, on the History of Ovariotomy, is of a nature to benefit the cause of Animals. To correct misapprehension it is advisable to state the Correspondence arose from the action of The Society for the Total Abolition of Vivisection, and that several of the letters passed tlirough the hands of its Honorary Secretary prior to their publication, and were forwarded by him to The British Medical Journal. GEORGE R. JESSE. Honorary Secretary, FINIS, WTMAW AND SONS, rRINTHUS, OR KaT QUKBN STRSHT, LOMDON, W.C.
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