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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    ture through pedicle ; weight, twenty-nine pounds; recovered in seven weeks, and menses returned. 38. Bird, F.1 — [Details of this and following cases very- deficient.] Tumor so adherent that it was necessary to leave behind a portion of the cyst; recovered. 39. Bird, F.1 — H. T.; adhesions; great thickness; re- moved ; recovered. 40. Bird, F.1 — Miss D.; large sessile tumor; adhesions ; removed; died third day. 41. Bird, F.1 — Mrs. L.; cyst bound down in pelvis, caus- ing great suffering; tapping required every ten or twelve days ; removed ; died third day. 42. !Bird, F.1 — Mrs. H.; large compound tumors, involv- ing both ovaria ; removed; recovered. 43. Bird, F.1 — Mrs. G. ; small tumor ; non-adherent; removed; died fifth day. 44. Bird, F.1 — Large compound tumor; removed; died at the end of the week. 45. Bird, F.2 — Miss K. ; age, twenty-one ; large tumor; slight adhesions ; removed ; recovered. 46. Bird, F.3 — Large tumor, with short pedicle; removed; recovered. 47. Bird, F.8 — Mrs. P.; very large malignant mass ; inseparably adherent posteriorly. Extreme suffering from distention by solid matter, and rapidly approaching death, it was thought rendered the attempted operation justifiable; died the ensuing day. The following facts were given to Dr. K. Lee by Dr. Hogg (see tables, loc. cit. p. 103) : Mar- ried in 1841; never pregnant; had been treated by pres- sure and tapping. Operation, Jan. 6, 1848. Incision, two inches, and extended to ten; impossible to separate the adhe- sions, and operation was abandoned ; died in twenty-eight hours. 1 Lancet, vol. ii. 1850, p. 592. 2 Ibid.; and Loud. Med. Gaz. August, 1844.