Diseases of the ovaries : their diagnosis and treatment / by T. Spencer Wells.

  • Wells, Spencer, 1818-1897.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Diseases of the ovaries : their diagnosis and treatment / by T. Spencer Wells. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    which had some special interest. This plan has led to the publication, not of a new edition of the first volume, nor of a second volume following the first, but of an entirely new work, which I hope may prove acceptable to my professional brethren and useful to suffering women. In introducing the volume written in 1864 I performed a very pleasant duty in thanking many friends who had assisted me in the labours recorded in those pages. Of those friends, Dr. Ritchie and Dr. Wright have gone before and rest from their labours, leaving sad but kindly thoughts of them to us who remain for a time to work. Dr. Aitken, Dr. Wilson Fox, and Dr. Frank, have all con- tinued the aid they have always been ready from the first to give me. Dr. Day, Dr. Bantock, Dr. Wiltshire, and other of my colleagues at the Samaritan Hospital have most zealously assisted me in the wards, while Dr. Junker and Mr, W. Thomson have helped me in private practice. Dr. Junker has also made many of the drawings engraved in this volume, and has supplied descriptions of many of the tumours removed, and a valuable series of preparations of bony matter and teeth from dermoid cysts. Mr. Thomson has given me great assistance in preparing the tables, calculating the results, and generally in the labour of preparing this book for the press. To each and all I offer heartfelt thanks; but more especially to those professional brethren who have assisted me by entrusting their patients to my care. What I wrote in 1804 I repeat now, 'Every patient whose case is recorded in the following pages has been confided to me by some member of the noble profession to which we all belong. Many are old friends ; some were strangers, until a common interest in a patient led to an acquaintance which has since ripened into