A Clinical Lecture on Ovariotomy

GENTLEMEN,-YOu have recently had under your notice a case of multilocular ovarian cyst, and have had the opportunity of seeing me remove it by the operation of ovariotomy, with, I am happy to say, complete success; and I propose now to make a few clinical remarks upon the subject.The patient was a married woman aged 29, and the mother of four children.In 1873, after a confinement, she noticed that her abdomen remained large.She was confined again in July I874, the enlargement still persisting, and she wore an abdominal belt for nine months.In the early part of I876, she noticed a hard lump in the abdomen, and applied for advice at a special hospital, when she was told that she had a fibrous tumour of the uterus, and attended for some months without benefit.She was recommended to me by a medical friend, and was admitted here on December 2nd, I876, when the following was her condition, as reported by Mr. Smith, the clinical clerk.