Cases requiring abdominal operations in the service of Dr. J.F.W. Ross at the Toronto General Hospital during the summer of 1891.

  • Ross, James Frederick William, 1856-1911.
Date:
1892
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Credit: Cases requiring abdominal operations in the service of Dr. J.F.W. Ross at the Toronto General Hospital during the summer of 1891. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Pelvic peritonitis. Abnormally long omentum, rolled up and fixed in the cul-de-sac of Douglas. Intestines, Fallopian tubes, and ovaries fixed in a dense and impermeable mass. Patient was suffering with gonorrhea. When rising one morning she was seized with severe pain in the hypogastric region, and remained in bed for three days. Pain returned. Tender on pressure. At examination under chloroform a mass was felt to the right side of the pelvis, extending to within Fig. 2.—Right pyo salpinx. one and one half inches of the crest of the ilium.. An in- definite feeling, such as I never felt before, due, as was evinced at operation, to a tightening of the rolled and ad- herent omentum. Exploratory operation. Recovery. December, 1891, patient is still suffering, and nothing hut a desperate attempt to remove tubes and ovaries will cure her. Case XII.—Gonorrheal pyo-salpinx. Greatly thickened tube mistaken for uterine myoma and treated with electri-
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