The pathology and treatment of diseases of the ovaries : (being the Hastings essay for 1873).. . ociety of London, inJune, 1878, and as it illustratesnot only this disease, but thefact that diseased ovaries lead to intractable monorrhagia whichkills the patient, I shall quote the report in full. If instead ofusing a sponge tent, which merely had the effect of killing theenfeebled patient by septic peritonitis, the surgeons had removedthe patients ovaries, they would have removed the cause of thehemorrhage, and probably have saved and cured their victim, a woman aged twenty-one, had
The pathology and treatment of diseases of the ovaries : (being the Hastings essay for 1873).. . ociety of London, inJune, 1878, and as it illustratesnot only this disease, but thefact that diseased ovaries lead to intractable monorrhagia whichkills the patient, I shall quote the report in full. If instead ofusing a sponge tent, which merely had the effect of killing theenfeebled patient by septic peritonitis, the surgeons had removedthe patients ovaries, they would have removed the cause of thehemorrhage, and probably have saved and cured their victim, a woman aged twenty-one, had suffered from al-most constant hemorrhage since her marriage three years pre-viously ; and when admitted into Guys Hospital she was soexhausted that transfusion was thought of. The hemorrhage,however, was checked by the use of a sponge tent and the sub-sequent injection of warm water, but the woman died ten dayslater of suppurative peritonitis. Both ovaries were found en-larged, but retaining their normal shape ; and it was at firstthought that the enlargement was due to acute Myxomatous G^rowth. of Ovary. 154 DISEASES OF THE OVAllIES. Microscopical examination, however, showed that the histologi-cal characters of the growth were those of myxoma, thoughthe harder portions exhibited the characters of sarcoma. Thespleen was leuksemic. The uterine mucous ijiembrane was dis-integrated on its surface (as shown in one of the microscopicalsections) and altered in structure, its round cells appearingseparated, as if by fluid effused between them, and being sur-rounded by a fibrillar growth, reminding one of the state ofthings found in the ovaries. He would leave it, the reporter said,to the pathologists to decide whether there was any connectionbetween the leukaemia, from which the patient suffered, and themyxomatous enlargement of the ovaries. The structure of the walls of ovarian cystomata is tolerablyuniform, but it is so often altered by protracted growth and in-fla
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