Removal of the Uterine Appendages

Nomenclature.?The want of a good name for this operation is already being felt. At first, when its object was supposed to be limited to the production of an artificial menopause, the operation was known as "normalovariotomy." Battey, who introduced the name, was among the first to recognise its unsuitability. As a matter of principle, the operation was by no means restricted to ovaries that were normal; and, as a matter of practice, it was found that most of the ovaries removed were actually diseased. The term, " Battey's operation," while suitable within the limits which Battey laid down for it, does not include the more extended modern proceedings. "Oophorectomy" had already been used by Peaslee and others as a synonym for ovariotomy before it Was sought to limit it to removal of small ovaries; and as oviducts are now, in most cases, removed as well as