The history and statistics of ovariotomy, and the circumstances under which the operation may be regarded as safe and expedient : being a dissertation to which the prize of the Massachusetts Medical Society was awarded, May 1856 / by George H. Lyman.

  • Lyman, George H. (George Hinckley), 1819-1891
Date:
1856
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Credit: The history and statistics of ovariotomy, and the circumstances under which the operation may be regarded as safe and expedient : being a dissertation to which the prize of the Massachusetts Medical Society was awarded, May 1856 / by George H. Lyman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sea consequent upon pregnancy. This may be so j but, in the absence of evidence that the nausea was not increased by so serious a wound of the peritoneum, I report it as fatal. 16. Atlee, W. L.1 — Mrs. M. W.; age, 29 ; some ascites. Operation, April 16, 1851. Incision, from near sternum to pubes; firm extensive adhesions; pedicle, six inches broad; multilocular; thirty-five and a half pounds; died, third day, of peritonitis. IT. Atlee, W. L.2 — Operation, Jan. 3, 1852. Mrs. M. Q.; age, sixty-eight. Incision, seven inches ; adhesions ; cystiform tumor, twenty-eight pounds, removed; recovered; still living. 18. Atlee, W. L.2 — Operation, May 31, 1852. Miss H. S.; age, twenty; much prostrated. Incision, one inch below umbilicus to pubes; firm adhesions; purulent cysts, quite rotten; omentum thickened; weight, twenty-five pounds ; died, in thirteen hours, of exhaustion. [Were these rotten cysts, firmly and extensively adherent, entirely removed ?] 19. Atlee, W. L.2 — Operation, Aug. 16, 1852. Mrs. E. A.; age, thirty; five months' growth. Incision, one inch above umbilicus to pubes ; both ovaries removed; the right, multilocular and medullary; the left, unilocular, rotten, and gangrenous, containing offensive gas, and everywhere adhe- rent ; weight, forty pounds; died, in nine hours, of exhaustion. 20. Atlee, W. L.2 — Operation, Sept. 14, 1853. Mrs. S. R.; age, fifty-six. Incision, navel to pubes ; adhesions; considerable ascites; cystiform pedicle, broad and vascular; weighed fifty pounds; recovered ; still living. 21. Atlee, W. L.2 — Operation, Sept. 21, 1853. Mrs. E. S.; age, twenty-six; six months' growth. Incision, from umbilicus to pubes; extensive adhesions; cystiform; some of them gangrenous, and filled with pus; weight, forty pounds ; died, in twenty-two days, from gangrenous perfora- i Trans, of Am. Med. Assoc. 1851, Atlee's Tables; and Am. Jour. Med. Sciences, April, 1855. 2 Am. Jour. Med. Sciences, April, 1855, p. 390.