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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    ciated, and more suitably dealt with by the surgeon, through a free opening than through a small one. For example :—the effusion of blood, or the escape of fluid from the cyst into the peritoneum, either of which is a most dangerous complication of the diffi- culties inseparable from any method of operating, can with no certainty be avoided in the minor, but may assuredly be remedied if they should oecur in the major operation. Adhesions too can be divided, the parts can be cleansed, and arteries tied with facility, if necessary, and the operator’s mind freed from doubt as to the state of the internal parts, before he carefully closes the wound. These are circumstances which the experienced operator can appreciate; and if he should not be blinded by an undue apprehension of peritoneal inflammation, he will be sure to estimate highly such palpable advantages. To proceed with the case :— Mrs. F——, of -—— Street, Marylebone, et. 58, applied to me about the beginning of July with abdominal enlargement, equalling that of pregnancy at the full period. The catamenia had ceased four years. She used to be subject to floodings. Had given birth to five living children, and miscarried several times. A rounded prominence of the abdo- men, of a cireumscribed character, with fluctuation,