Two Successful Cases of Ovariotomy

Repeated Ovariotomy

The necessity for repeated ovariotomy in the same patient is somewhat rare. Of 228 cases of unilateral ovariotomy performed by Spencer "Wells, recurrence in the presumably healthy ovary, necessitating a second operation, was noted in 6 cases; and of 300 cases collected by Pfannensteil in the Breslau Klinik, 6 required a second ovariotomy. Yellitz has collected 135 cases of repeated laparotomies...

Fourteen Cases of Completed Ovariotomy

The operation of ovariotomy not long ago was looked upon as an unwarrantable proceeding; nor need it be wondered at when we know the terrible feelings of dread with which surgeons regarded interference with the peritonseum, and the extremely exaggerated fears they had of peritonitis. Bat within the last twenty years the labours of Mr Spencer Wells, Dr Thomas Keith, etc., in this country, and of...

Ovariotomy for menstrual madness and premenstrual syndrome--19th century history and lessons for current practice.

Ovariotomy--the removal of normal ovaries, known as Battey's Operation--began in 1872 and became the fashionable treatment of menstrual madness, neurasthenia, nymphomania, masturbation and "all cases of insanity". This practice was supported by distinguished gynecologists and psychiatrists, becoming one of the great medical scandals of the 19th century. In modern times, if menstrual madness is ...

Cases of Ovariotomy

Diagnosis and Surgical Treatment of Abdominal Tumours

ovarian and allied tumours. It is a thoroughly practical work, well written and illustrated, and is a valuable record of the author's long experience and work, which in great part form the history of ovariotomy. The chapter on the rise and progress of this operation is both interesting and instructive. As regards the influence of Listerism in lessening the mortality after ovariotomy, the author...