Cases of dropsical ovaria removed by the large abdominal section / D. Henry Walne.

  • Walne, Daniel Henry.
Date:
1843
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Credit: Cases of dropsical ovaria removed by the large abdominal section / D. Henry Walne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tion, from however trivial a cause, should be suffered to increase the hazard of the contemplated operation. On the 13th of August, therefore, and two or three times subsequently, I subjected them to the process of torsion, by which, if not absolutely destroyed, they were reduced to complete insignificance. A further accidental disturbance of her general health, and the period required for her comfortable restora- tion by a visit to the country, occasioned the post- ponement of my purpose in reference to the ovarian disease ; so that by the time at which I had proposed to operate, Dr. C. Clay’s first case was published; and this served to decide my choice of operation. I deter- mined to extirpate the diseased ovarium by the large abdominal section, and found a ready approval of my purpose on the part of Dr. Blundell. Accord- ingly I arranged for the performance of the operation on the 6th of November, but had the still farther satisfaction of seeing Dr. Clay’s second successful case in print on the 5th, and of receiving the same day an obliging answer to two or three inquiries as to minor details of the operation, which, though a stranger to him, I had not hesitated to make. My reasons for preferring to operate by the larger section were these: that it does not appear that a less extent of wound diminishes the danger of the operation in any material degree, if at all; and that the complications which occasionally present without being foreseen, and which, indeed, do not admit of being foreseen in every instance, can be better appre-