On the nature of ovarian cysts / by Robert Lee.

  • Robert Lee
Date:
1860
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Credit: On the nature of ovarian cysts / by Robert Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    grain. It was divided into two parts; one part gave, by fusion with caustic potash, and subsequent treatment wdtb hydrochloric acid, abundant evidence of the presence of sulphur; the other portion afforded all the reactions of an albuminous or protein compound. I regret that the quantity at my disposal was so exceedingly small, that I was unable to submit it to any further experiments. Roughly, however, the composition of the substance (as it came to me) may be expressed thus, in one hundred parts : Water ...... 78-60 Hair ...... 3-23 Fat ...... 16-17 An albuminous^ substance, having many of the characters of casein^ and containing much sul¬ phur ...... 2-00 100-00” III. In November, 1842, I was requested by the late Mr. Gaskell to see Miss F—, aged twelve years, who had an enlargement of the hypogastrium. The catamenia had not appeared, and there were none of the symptoms of puberty present. About the end of October, 1843, the enlargement of the abdomen had greatly increased, and fluctuation was very distinct. On tlie 2d of November she was tapped by Mr. Aston Key, and a quantity of dark- coloured, gelatinous fluid, evidently the product of an ovarian cyst, was drawn off. After the fluid had been drawn off, the lower part of the abdomen was still hard and irregular, and a solid mass, the size of a hen^s egg, was distinctly felt, the day after the tapping, in the epigastrium. In July, 1845, the fluid had again collected, and the abdomen was very large. It was then proposed, by several medical practitioners, that the operation of ovariotomy should be performed; but, at my suggestion, recourse was again had to tapping. During the tapping, the canula being obstructed, the fluid ceased to flow, and on inquiring
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