Ovariotomy and its results / by Charles Clay.

  • Clay, Charles, 1801-1893.
Date:
[1857?]
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Credit: Ovariotomy and its results / by Charles Clay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    smaller in proportion to the size of the tumour than usual, being about eight inches. I still maintain, that high temperature during the operation is positively necessary to its success. I did not tap the second sac, as it was but small. The adhesions in this case were ex¬ tensive ; but I have rejected many cases in my early practice with less adhesions, which I now regret. One word as to injecting ovarian tumours with iodine. I tried two cyst cases in 1847 and 1848, but in neither case could I perceive the slightest benefit *, but I think it just possible that, by the use of iodine, the patient’s prospects by an operation may be utterly destroyed (as also with the pressure sys¬ tem recommended by I. B. Brown). I shall in future treat my cases with the statistics up to the time. In conclusion, I have to observe how much I was surprised to find that, in Mr Edwards’ case, reported in the April number of this Journal, three arterial branches had to be tied during the section of the abdominal walls. In the whole seventy-nine operations I have been concerned in, I have not yet been called upon to use ligature for any vessels, except those accompanying, and included in the pedicle. The amount of haemorrhage is always trifling, and the successful issue of such an operation depends as much on the watchful mode of treatment afterwards as upon the operation itself. Murray and gIbb, priNtrrs, Edinburgh.