Cases of dropsical ovaria removed by the large abdominal section / by D. Henry Walne.

  • Walne, D. Henry (Daniel Henry), 1796-1866.
Date:
1843
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Credit: Cases of dropsical ovaria removed by the large abdominal section / by D. Henry Walne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    ultimately treating it by operation. We however thought that, in deference to the opinion still enter- tained by a few physicians that internal remedies are not without use in such cases, it would be proper first to give a trial to a course of such as are at pre- sent in most esteem. By thus proceeding we should test the efficacy of active internal agents, and in the event of their failure, find a fuller justification for resorting to surgical means. Mr. Camplin's patient, Mrs. M. R , was a widow, aged fifty-seven, who had not married till she was forty-six, had never been in the family way, and whose husband died five years after their marriage. Having always been accustomed to suffer much at the menstrual periods, she yet continued to menstruate till she was 49. Full sixteen years before she applied to Mr. Camplin she had thought herself larger on the left side of the abdomen than on the right, but until about eight years ago had not felt the slightest inconvenience, nor did she take any notice of the circumstance to any one, being in the enj oyment of perfect health. About the latter period, however, she felt a soreness and tenderness of the lower part of the left side of the abdomen, accom- panied by fulness; and a surgeon, to whom she applied, mentioned the ovary of that side as the seat of ailment, and ordered her leeches, iodine ointment, and various other remedies, observing that though her complaint was not a thing which touched life, it sometimes ended in dropsy. Five or six years