Archives of medicine : A bi-monthly journal devoted to original communications on medicine, surgery, and their special branches. . d unavailing. We doubted whether she would not die from the processof etherization, but it was regarded as safer to employ the full knowledge of herfriends as to the gloominess of theoutlook, I proceeded to tumor was as large as a ducksegg, was as sessile in its attachmentas Fig. 7 represents, but could bereadily reached through the os whichwas as large as a half dollar. Forany degree of hope to attach to theoperation rapidity of execution wasab
Archives of medicine : A bi-monthly journal devoted to original communications on medicine, surgery, and their special branches. . d unavailing. We doubted whether she would not die from the processof etherization, but it was regarded as safer to employ the full knowledge of herfriends as to the gloominess of theoutlook, I proceeded to tumor was as large as a ducksegg, was as sessile in its attachmentas Fig. 7 represents, but could bereadily reached through the os whichwas as large as a half dollar. Forany degree of hope to attach to theoperation rapidity of execution wasabsolutely essential. As soon asanaesthesia was complete I seized thetumor with a vulsellum and in a little less than six minutesit was removed. No hemorrhage followed and for some days we indulgedthe hope that the flickering flame of life might be that time, however, the patient died very suddenly,and apparently from sheer asthenia. Case 5.—This case, one of the most interesting and sig-nificant of all which this paper embodies, I saw with Johnson, to whom I am indebted for the follow-ing history :. , 7- 28 T, GAILLARD THOMAS. Mrs. M. S., born in New York, aged 30, mother of fivechildren, enjoyed excellent health until her fourth confine-ment in March, 1877, when a small fibrous tumor as large as ahickory-nut was discovered in the posterior wall of the cervix. In October, 1877, seven months from the discovery ofthe fibroid, she became pregnant and went on favorablyuntil the 1st of July, 1878, when she consulted Dr. Johnsonon account of severe vomiting. On the 10th he examinedphysically and found a tumor well nigh filling the pelviccavity. Its attachment was to the posterior wall of theuterus, while the os could be felt high up behind the sym-phisis pubis. Dr. Johnson goes on to say: Dr. Emil Noeggerath sawher with me on the nth and as labor seemed imminent,advised to make pressure against the tumor by the use ofBarnes dilators, thus flattening it and
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