Diseases of the ovaries : their diagnosis and treatment . operation it seemed doubtful whetherthey could be broken through. But they slowdy gave waybefore the fingers, and a long pedicle from the left side wassecured partly by the clamp, partly by ligature. The rightovary was healthy. The hardness of the tumour prevented theclearing out of the contents during the operation, which tookplace early in January, 1870. Recovery was so far advancedas to admit of travelling a journey home by the middle ofFebruary. In the month of October following the lady married,and within a twelvemonth, that is on
Diseases of the ovaries : their diagnosis and treatment . operation it seemed doubtful whetherthey could be broken through. But they slowdy gave waybefore the fingers, and a long pedicle from the left side wassecured partly by the clamp, partly by ligature. The rightovary was healthy. The hardness of the tumour prevented theclearing out of the contents during the operation, which tookplace early in January, 1870. Recovery was so far advancedas to admit of travelling a journey home by the middle ofFebruary. In the month of October following the lady married,and within a twelvemonth, that is on October 6, 1871, she wasdelivered of a living child. The expulsive action during labourwas but feeble, and forceps were used. Convalescence afterdelivery was retarded bv the formation of an abscess in the DERMOID CYSTS REMOVED BY OPERATION. 73 abdominal wall, near the upper end of the scar left after theincision in ovariotomy. The tumour consisted of three distinct portions as shown inthe diagram; the ovary, the dermoid cyst, and a large cyst The left ovary was about one-fourth larger than its natural size,with its surface rendered uneven by enlarged Graafian follicles,one of which, about as big as an ordinary pea, contained coagu-lated blood. There were also the white stellate remains offollicles formerly ruptured. Connected with the outer end ofthe upper border of the ovary by a short and thin constrictionor neck, was a unilocular cyst the size of an orange. Thegreater part of its hard, fibrous,almost cartilaginous walls wasossified as indicated by the shading in the diagram. The bonyportion was a flat expansion nearly encircling the cavity; andfrom the inner side of it there was a thick solid mass of boneprojecting, which had very much the shape of the lower jawof a rodent (less the coronoid process), and set with badly-shaped teeth. Several depressions in the bone contained littlepellets, as large as linseed and peas, of coiled up hair. Thishair had no bulbs. Th
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