A case in which ovariotomy was twice successfully performed on the same patient / by T. Spencer Wells.

  • Wells, Spencer, 1818-1897.
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[1867]
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Credit: A case in which ovariotomy was twice successfully performed on the same patient / by T. Spencer Wells. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A C A S E IN WHICH OVARIOTOMY WAS TWICE SUCCESSFULLY PERFORMED ON THE SAME PATIENT. BY T. SPENCER WELLS, F.R.C.S., SURGEON IN ORDINARY TO HER MAJESTY’S HOUSEHOLD ; SURGEON TO THE SAMARITAN HOSPITAL. Received Oct. 6th.—Read Nov. 13th, 1866. In the forty-sixth volume of the f Transactions’ of this Society a case is published in which I performed ovariotomy, and removed the right ovary of a patient whose left ovary had been removed nine months before by another surgeon. This patient died on the seventh day after the second opera¬ tion. In recording that case I stated that Dr. Atlee, of Phila¬ delphia, had successfully performed ovariotomy upon a patient whose opposite ovary had been removed sixteen years before by Dr. Clay, of Manchester. I have since heard that Dr. Frederic Bird has operated for the second time unsuc¬ cessfully upon a patient from whom he had removed one ovary fourteen years before. I have not heard of any case in which ovariotomy has been twice successfully performed upon the same patient by the same surgeon, except that which is now submitted to the Society.