A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . , and bears a haggard, distressed countenance. Shewas operated on on the 20th of February, 1878. ki The abdominal incision was extended about twTo inchesabove the umbilicus before the tumor could be raised from itsposition. Both ovaries were involved in the disease, andwere removed with the uterus. Her recovery was slow, be-ing retarded by the immoderate use of Morphia, which Icould not. for a time, prevent. She eventually left off theMorphia, gained health and strength rapidly, and made agood recove
A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . , and bears a haggard, distressed countenance. Shewas operated on on the 20th of February, 1878. ki The abdominal incision was extended about twTo inchesabove the umbilicus before the tumor could be raised from itsposition. Both ovaries were involved in the disease, andwere removed with the uterus. Her recovery was slow, be-ing retarded by the immoderate use of Morphia, which Icould not. for a time, prevent. She eventually left off theMorphia, gained health and strength rapidly, and made agood recovery. She now lives in this city in full enjoyment 734 EA TON ON DISEASES OF WOMEN. of perfect health, walks all around the city, goes to picnics,and says she never felt better in her life. The cuts exhibit two views of the tumor from Case8 th, one anterior and one posterior. The termination of these eight cases, then, was asfollows : Mrs. W-Mrs. B-Mrs. C- Mrs. C- -, recovered., died. recovered. recovered. Miss C Recoveries, 5; deaths, 3. Mrs. B-Mrs. F-Mrs. S- died. recovered,died, Fig. No. 71.—Extirpated Uterus. Dr. Gilman Kimball, of Lowell, Massachusetts, in hisreport on Extirpation of the Uterus (see Transactions ofthe American Medical Association, Vol. XXVIII, page 330),in enumerating the dangers and objections to the opera-tion, says : Another difficulty oftentimes met with in this opera-tion is adhesions, more or less extensive. If these implicate EXTIRPATION OF THE UTERUS. 735 the bladder, as they frequently do, they of course add im-mensely to the embarrassment as well as the dangers ofthe operation/ Two of my cases had this very complication, requiringextensive dissection to separate the bladder from the of them recovered, and the other survived the operationfifty-three days, and had no urinary inconvenience resultingfrom the dissection. Again, Dr. Kimball says (on the samepage) : There is still another class of uterine fibroids wheresurgical inte
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