Correspondence with T. Spencer Wells, F.R.C.S. ... on ovariotomy.

  • Jesse, George R. (George Richard)
Date:
1882
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Credit: Correspondence with T. Spencer Wells, F.R.C.S. ... on ovariotomy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that had I used them earlier and oftener, the mortality would have been less by one-third.” 2. “ To the use of the Cautery in dividing the Pedicle, as pro posed and practised by the late Mr. Baker Brown.* 3. “To the employment of Kceberle’s Compression Forceps.” 4. “ To the substitution of Ether for Chloroform in my last Two hundred and Thirty Operations. “So much,” says Dr. Thomas Keith, “for Ovariotomy and its results before Antiseptics.” His results since have been still more happy. Out of Forty- nine cases done under the Carbolic Acid Spray, between March, 1877, and September, 1878, Forty-seven x'ecovered. By Antiseptics the mortality is lessened, and the Drainage-tube not so often required. “Joseph Lister, who put us on the right way, will not be forgotten,” are the concluding words of Dr. Keith.t No credit, we think, is given, no mention whatever made, of your Experiments upon Animals ; and no successful results attri- buted to your “ Discovery” as to including the Peritoneum in the Sutures. | None of the eminent Members of your Profession I have quoted appear to coincide with you as to the value ol your “ Experi- ments ” on Animals;—and it is, I believe, a fact that no claim to any Discovery having been so made by you exists in the “ REPORT of the royal commission on the PRACTICE OF SUBJECTING LITE ANIMALS TO EXPERIMENTS FOR SCIENTIFIC PURPOSES.§ Most undoubtedly you did not appear as a Witness before the Com- missioners. But, even granting that your Yivisectional Experiments have been of the value you set upon them in regard to Operations, let the Public bear in mind that Cheselden, John Hunter, * See Note C. + Sec Note JD. J See Note E. § “REPORT OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE PRA CT1CE OF SUBJECTING LIVE ANIMALS TO EXPERIMENTS FOR SCIENTIFIC PURPOSES; with Minutes of Evidence, etc. Presented to loth Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. “ London: Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1876. Price As. id. [C.—1397.]” Also “DIGEST OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE THE ROYAL COMMISSION, ETC. with an Alphabetical List of Witnesses, etc. London: Printed by Eyre and Spottisicoodc, 1.370. Price Gd. [C.—1397.—I.]”