The retrospective address, delivered at the fifth anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Cheltenham, July 19th and 20th, 1837 / by James L. Bardsley.

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[1837]
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Credit: The retrospective address, delivered at the fifth anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Cheltenham, July 19th and 20th, 1837 / by James L. Bardsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    London, has successfully performed a new operation for naevus, by passing a needle, armed with a double ligature through the base of the tumour, and another, in like manner, at right angles with the former; and, the needles being withdrawn, he compresses the tumor by tying the ligatures.* The department of obstetrics has presented but few additions to our knowledge, and but few facts of striking interest, within the actual period of the present retrospect. In the branch of operative midwifery, however, I observe it related in Hufe- lantVs excellent Journal^ that Valentin Newber, of Molsdoff, has on two occasions, during the past year, performed the Cesarean section. In the one instance, the life of the mother was saved, though that of the child was lost; and in the other, the re- verse occurred, for the life of the child was preserved, whilst that of the mother was unexpectedly sacri- ficed. In the former case, the woman was thirty- seven years of age, and the straight diameter of the pelvic outlet was only about an inch and a half. The child's movements had not been experienced for three weeks prior to the operation, and before its performance the female had been in labour dur- ing thirty-six hours. In the second case, the section was made upon a woman aged thirty-two years, and about a week after the operatjon she was seized with an attack of peritonitis, which terminated fatally. A somewhat novel and curious case has been announced by Sommer, in one of the Prussian Journals wherein a living child was extracted by * Lancet. Dec. 21, 1836. t November 1836. C