Presidential address on the relation of gynaecology to surgery : delivered before the British Gynaecological Society, Thursday February 11, 1897 / by A.W. Mayo Robson.

  • Robson, A. W. Mayo (Arthur William Mayo), Sir, 1853-1933.
Date:
1897
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    equally well or even better than those that were isolated. Hence isolation was given up, and it is now the custom to operate on those cases in the theatre and to remove them to the general wards, just as is done with other surgical cases. In looking through the records of the Society, I can find among the numerous communications comparatively little reference to medical treatment, yet every gynaecologist is probably employing remedial agents and methods other than operative in the treatment of the diseases peculiar to women, and some the experience of which might be of great service to the Society. For instance, it would be most interesting to have further records of the trial of various animal extracts in the treatment of uterine and breast cancer and in other uterine tumours. The Glasgow School of Gynaecologists have been recently advocating their employment, either alone or along with surgical treatment, and have reported so favourably of their utility that further trials are called for. It would be of interest to the Society and to gynae- cologists in genera] if any of our Fellows could throw^ light on those conditions of pain starting in the pelvis over one or both ovaries, and yet not allied with any manifest gross organic lesion and which, though in most cases associated with a neurotic temperament, must, if we could only find it out, have some definite and distinct cause. These cases should probably, according to our present light, be treated by medical and general means rather than by any mutilating operations, which have too often been tried and found wanting. I hope during the session we may have the benefit of the experience of some of our Fellows on the use of antistreptococcus serum in the treatment of some of the acute inflammatory affections which are apt to occur in gynaecological and obstetric practice, for I cannot but think that the treatment has a great future before it in a class of cases attended both with imminent danger to life and with great anxiety to the medical attendant.