Tumours complicating pregnancy, labour, and the puerperium : being the Lettsomian lectures delivered before the Medical Society of London, February and March, 1920 / by Herbert R. Spencer.

  • Herbert Ritchie Spencer
Date:
1920
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Credit: Tumours complicating pregnancy, labour, and the puerperium : being the Lettsomian lectures delivered before the Medical Society of London, February and March, 1920 / by Herbert R. Spencer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which have remained well for 5 years after operation, viz., Olshausen’s (5f years), and Yon Ott’s (8J years) both operated on by vaginal hysterectomy in the puerperium. Two additional cases in advanced pregnancy have been cured, viz., Micholitch’s (5 years) and Aulhorn’s (5 years) both operated on by the extended abdominal hysterectomy. The former was in advanced pregnancy but not in labour; no information as to the presence of labour was given in Aulhorn’s case. I attribute the result in my cases to the use of the cautery (in two of the cases) and of antiseptic douches, and also to the fact that the operation was performed after delivery when the tissues were involuting. The rarity of cure of cancer complicating labour in advanced pregnancy seems to justify the re-publication of these cases with a later after-history. Sarwey in Veit’s ‘ Handbuch der Gynakologie,’ while mentioning the title of my former paper in the bibliography, does not allude to the cases in the text. Perhaps the after-history of Case 5 may lead the next German writer on the subject to consider the cases worthy of mention. Harrison & Sons, Printers in Ordinary to His Majesty, St. Martin’s Lane.