Ovarian Dropsy, Cured by a Simple Operation

A Case of Ovarian Dropsy

On a Case of Ovarian Dropsy

after death was Miss M. O . Although of respectable parentage, she became dissolute in her habits, and for many years led a profligate life ; but, having become legally insane, she was placed, in 1856, being then in her thirty-eighth year, in Bethnall House Asylum, London, where she was under my care whilst medical officer in that institution. She was very violent, noisy, and obscene, intractab...

Ovarian Epilepsy and Its Treatment by Operation

A Simple Operation for Piles

A Simple Operation for Pterygium.

IT IS generally accepted that simple excision of pterygium is an unsatisfactory procedure. Better results are obtained with transplantation operationsinto the fornix conjunctivae or behind the caruncle. Still more satisfactory is the operation described by d'Ombrain (1948), in which the subconjunctival element of the pterygium is excised along with the epithelial portion of the head and neck an...