Diseases of the ovaries : their diagnosis and treatment . irmly to the clamp that it was not re-moved till the eighth day. All the sutures were removed fortyhours after operation. The bowels did not act till the ele-venth day. The catamenia came on at the usual time, and hadpassed off on April 7, without any escape by the cicatrix,although it was not quite firm at the lower part. She rapidlygained strength, and left the hospital on April 13 in excellenthealth. CASE LIX. MARCH 16, 1363. 149 It is very curious that as in all my cases of ovariotomy Ihave only met with two cysts in which hair or t
Diseases of the ovaries : their diagnosis and treatment . irmly to the clamp that it was not re-moved till the eighth day. All the sutures were removed fortyhours after operation. The bowels did not act till the ele-venth day. The catamenia came on at the usual time, and hadpassed off on April 7, without any escape by the cicatrix,although it was not quite firm at the lower part. She rapidlygained strength, and left the hospital on April 13 in excellenthealth. CASE LIX. MARCH 16, 1363. 149 It is very curious that as in all my cases of ovariotomy Ihave only met with two cysts in which hair or teeth werefound, this and the case last de-scribed (Case 57) should haveoccurred together. In both casesthe hair grew, as shown in theannexed cut, from the inner wall ofthe cysts, and hung into the cavity,where it was matted together withmasses of epithelial cells which hadundergone fatty degeneration. Thehairs had distinct bulbs and grewfrom follicles. Many of themwere shed,—indeed, only a smallproportion retained their connec-tion with the cyst CASE LIX. Ovariotomy; Uterine Epistaxis ; Pelvic Hcematocele; VaginalTapping; Pycemic Pleurisy; Death hventy-six days afterOperation. In February 1863 I was consulted by a patient twenty-sixyears of age, unmarried, whose abdomen was rilled by a multi-locular ovarian cyst, without attachments to the abdominal uterus was high up and pushed to the left side by a semi-solid tumour to the right of it, which appeared to be catamenia were regular, and always had been. The diseasehad commenced in December 1861, with some pains low down,especially on the left side; but it was not till May 1862 thatswelling of the abdomen was noticed. She was treated forliver. In September 1863 she consulted Dr. Greorge Cooperof Brentford, who detected ovarian disease, which had steadilyincreased, especially for two months before I saw her. I com-municated with Dr. Cooper, and received from him a lettercontaining the following extra
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