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
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1856
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    dissected the peritoneum from pedicle to apply ligature; no bad symptoms ; recovered in eight weeks ; calls attention to method of applying ligature, as something new. (See Van Buren, 281.) 186. Howard.1 — H. M. ; age, twenty-eight; married ; four children, two of them since tumor began; five years' growth; left ovary; tapped twice in previous nine months. Operation, October 26, 1852. Incision, umbilicus to pubes; owing to adhesions, extirpation abandoned; excised a por- tion of cyst, and introduced a tent; discharge soon became very offensive, and she died, in seventeen days, of ex- haustion [probably gangrenous inflammation of cyst, and peritonitis]. 187. Handyside.2 — Jessy Fleming; age, twenty ; twenty months' growth ; tapped ten times; menses irregular. Ope- ration, Sept. 5, 1845. Large incision; principal tumor was in left ovary, but both were diseased and removed ; had slight pneumonia, also phlebitis, which subsided; in twenty-five days, she had, from imprudence in diet, an attack of ileus, of which she died, seventy days after the operation; both tumors encysted. 188. Handyside.3 — Mrs. P.; age, thirty-eight; married ; five children ; one year's growth; tapped four times. Ope- ration, Sept. 3, 1846. Incision, four inches; both ovaries removed; ligatures carried through recto-vaginal cul de sac into vagina; died of peritonitis; cysts weighed ten pounds. 189. JeafFreson.4 — Mrs. B.; two children since growth began. Operation, March, 1836. Incision, one and a half inch; cyst evacuated, and, after slight extension of the inci- sion, extracted; ligature around pedicle, and cut close ; lac- 1 Am. Jour. Med. Sciences, April, 1853, from Ohio Med. and Surg. Jour.; also Eanking's Abs. 1853. 2 Lond. and Edin. Month. Jour. vol. i. 1846, p. 446; and Edin. Med. and Surg. Jour. vol. lxv. 8 R. Lee's Tables, No. 86, from the operator. 4 Lancet, January, 1837.