Fifty additional cases of complete ovariotomy ... / by J. Knowsley Thornton.

  • Thornton, John Knowsley.
Date:
1879
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Credit: Fifty additional cases of complete ovariotomy ... / by J. Knowsley Thornton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REMOVAL OF HYDATIDS OF THE OMENTUM. On March 5th 1878, I was asked to see a woman at Tottenham, who was some months pregnant, and was suffering much from some obscure abdominal tumour. I saw her the same evening, and was very much in doubt as to the nature of the case, and advised her removal to the Samaritan Hospital, in order that I might have her under observation for some few days, and take the advice of my colleagues at our weekly consultation. She was admitted on March 7th. E. P., aged thirty-two, married five years, and mother of one boy three years and a half old; a dark, sallow woman, with furrowed brow, as if in constant pain, markedly emaciated. History.—Had enjoyed fairly good health up to the time her child was born, three years and a half ago. On the third day after her labour, she had a sharp attack of pleurisy in the right side, which passed off in ten days. She did not, however, regain her usual health, but continued weak, and in three months noticed a lump in the right side of the abdomen. It gave her a good deal of pain, and she also suffered from pain over the pubes. She consulted a London physician, who told her that she had fibroid tumour of the uterus. The lump first noticed, continued to grow slowly, and^vith increase of pain, and at times much bearing down of the uterus. In the early part of 1877, she was supposed to have miscarried at the fourth month of pregnancy ; but as no foetus was seen, and menstruation seems to have been irregular
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