Dr. Conquest's outlines of midwifery : intended as a text-book for students, and a book of reference for junior practitioners.

  • Conquest, Dr.
Date:
1854
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    a central cavity, which is either empty or filled with coagula. It gradually disappears, and at the end of the fifth month of gestation is, as a general rule, completely absorbed. Spurious corpora lutea are found in the virgin ovary, as well as in that of the woman who has borne children. They differ from the true corpus luteum in being irregular in shape, and in not possessing a cavity lined with membrane. — J, M. W.] OVARIOTOMY, [The limits of an elementary work will not permit me to dwell on, or even allude to, many points of interest connected with the functions and diseases of the ovaries; nevertheless, the subject of ovariotomy has lately excited so nuicn attention, that I cannot pass it by without making a few observations. It cannot be doubted that the operation is attended with great hazard, the rate of mortality, according to Lee, being as high as 1 in 2||. Recent ob- servations have, however, led me to infer that the dangers, great as they are, have been overrated, and that failures have often happened in con- sequence of unsuitable cases having been selected for the operation. A case of encysted dropsy of the ovary, which lately came under my notice, and on which Mr. Borlase Childs operated most skilfully and successfully, was unquestionably not one of those cases which are usually considered most favourable for excision; and yet the patient has done well. As it is Mr. Childs'a intention B 2