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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    with that part of the body. At some time previous to the attendanee of Mr. Ahernethy and yourself, she had peculiar symptoms. On one occasion Dr. Baillie attended her; she had pain in the side; Dr. Baillie said it was liver. Leeches were applied ; she became easier, and a small stone passed aw^ay. At the time of Mr. Abernethy^s attendance, as much as a small saucer-full came away; many of the stones were as large as horse-beans, and there was hair amongst them. She says that you remained twelve or fourteen nights, and that on one occasion her mother told you she could jump up and run away. She became per¬ fectly well after the operation, without any degree of incon¬ tinence or difficulty in retaining the urine. ^ The operation was performed in 1816, and death oc¬ curred in 1819. At some intermediate time the calculus which accompanies this was passed. The patient was very uneasy in the night; her daughter got up and gave her the chamber bed-utensil called a slipper. As the w^ater passed, something hard w'as heard to drop into the vessel, and proved to be the calculus sent herewith. In the latter part of life the urine was frequently very fetid, thick, and sometimes ropy, so that death was probably hastened by the irritation of disease in the urinary organs.^ My recollection of what was removed in the operation is that it consisted entirely of separate calculous portions, the largest being of the size mentioned in the narrative, the remainder gradually lessening down to minute par¬ ticles. The latter were mixed with short hairs, so as to constitute a softish mass. There were several separate incrusted hairs. “ I remain, yours very faithfully, Wm. Law^rence. “ Dr. R. Lee,”
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