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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    reduced to twenty^seven and a quarter. The second, passing above the hips, and meeting between the umbilicus and pubes, w as reduced from thirty-four inches and a quarter, to thirty-two inches and a half. The third, meeting over the pubes, fell from thirty-six inches and a quarter to thirty-three inches and a quarter. In short, Mrs. C—, wdiile six months ago she had the appearance of being seven or eight months pregnant, has now no appearance of any abdominal enlargement.’^ “ Dated Sinoapore ; 25tli January, 1858.” From the 10th of April, 1858, to the 21st of May, Mrs. C— w’as under the care of Dr. Allan, and her sufferings during this period were intense. The pain she experienced chiefly arose from the passage through the urethra of numerous hairs coated with calcareous matter, a collection of Avhich calculi, made by Dr. Allan, accompanies this com¬ munication. Mrs. C— stated to Dr. Allan, that while at Singapore, similar sharp-pointed and curved calcareous concretions w^ere passed from the bladder, which led Dr. Little to conclude that there had been an extra-uterine conception, and that these w'ere the bones of the foetus which had been by utero-decomposition completely broken up.” At one o’clock in the morning of the 21st of May, 1858, Mrs. C— w as seized with puerperal convidsions. At two p.m. 1 saw her, in consultation wdth Dr. Allan; and at three, the fits continuing with great violence, w^e agreed that delivery was the only means that could be employed to save her life. From the extreme rigidity of the os uteri, the delivery w^as not accomplished without the greatest difficulty ; but we at last succeeded by our combined efforts in emptying the uterus. No convulsions followed the delivery, and consciousness returned; but she died tw'O days after. I obtained permission, with the utmost difficulty, to examine the body; and did so in the presence of Dr. Allan
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