Ovarian tumors : their pathology, diagnosis, and treatment, especially by ovariotomy / by E. Randolph Peaslee.

Date:
1873
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    Case I. (Dr. W. L. Atlee.)—Mrs. J. C, aged tliirty-six years, mother of six children. Menstruation always returned five months after parturi- tion. Meustruated regularly the last time, March 20, 1854> April 17, 1854, both ovaries were removed at eleven o'clock a. m. Menstruation returned the same evening. On the anniversary of the operation for several years Mrs. 0. regularly wrote to me, keeping me advised of her condition, always assuring me that the menses continued to return regularly. December 5, 1867, I saw the patient. She informed me that up to May 1, 1864, she continued to menstruate as regularly as she had ever done. It then ceased. In May, 1865, she had a return, which was the last of it. December 3, 1866, she was forty-eight years old. August 1, 1868, I called to see her while passing through B , and noticed that she had a shaved beard. Case 11. (Dr. W. L. Atlee.)—Miss K. Y., aged nineteen years, has menstruated regularly, accompanied with some dysmenorrhoea. Had a regular menstruation just four weeks ago. April 25, 1855, removed both ovaries. October 25, 1855, I saw the patient. She had just issued her wedding- cards. She has had the regular monthly molimen as before the operation, and also a monthly discharge, but not stained with blood. She married, made a visit to Europe, and after her return I learned from her mother that the monthly discharge continued, and that she had the proper enjoyments of matrimonial life. Case III. (Dr. H. E. Storer.^)—Sarah A. Colcord, aged forty-seven, unmarried. The menses have always been normal, though somewhat scanty. September 23, 1865, both ovaries and the whole of the uterus, except a small portion of the cervix, were removed. From the date of the operation until October 11th, eighteen days subse- quently [to it], and twenty-six after the last appearance of the catamenia, there was no discharge whatever from the vagina. Then there occurred a sanguineous effusion, attended by feelings of lassitude, back-ache, etc., etc., lasting thirty hours, and being an evident attempt at the reestablishment of menstruation. Case TV. (Dr. H. R. Storer.^)—Mrs. Dunham, aged forty-three years, the mother of six children. Menstruation had been regular down to within two months, and was now suppressed, as was supposed, by pregnancy. The symptoms became urgent, and November 20, 1867, both ovaries were removed. In the present instance, the menses had been absent for two months, and yet reappeared subsequently to the operation, although the ovaries had both been removed, and the major part of the Fallopian tubes also. ^ American Journal of Medical Sciences^ January, 1866, p. 110.