On drainage in ovariotomy / by George Granville Bantock.

  • Bantock, George Granville, 1837-1913.
Date:
1877
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On drainage in ovariotomy / by George Granville Bantock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    on the next day, the discharge having ceased, this was removed and the opening forthwith closed up. The patient left her room on the eleventh day, and the hospital on the twenty-fourth day. Case ii.—M. H., aged 48, mother of four children, was admitted into St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in August 1875, under the care of Dr. Greenhalgh. A few days afterwards, the tumour hurst; the fluid was absorbed ; and, at the end of three weeks, the patient left the hospital very much reduced in size. She re-entered the hospital in June 1876, and on the 26th Mr. Thomas Smith removed twenty-one pints of fluid by tapping. The case was considered too unfavourable for operation ; and on August 14th she entered the Samaritan Hospital, where I tapped her for Mr. Wells, removing twenty-two pints, and leaving a larger mass than before. The hospital was about to be closed for the annual cleaning, and the patient was sent home. At the re-opening of the hospital on October 1st, the patient returned, urgently requiring relief, and Mr. Wells kindly allowed me to keep the case. On October 4th, she measured 42 inches in circumference at the umbili- cus, 9| inches from the ensiform cartihge to the umbilicus, lOi inches from the umbilicus to the sym- physis pubis, Hi inches from the umbilicus to the right anterior superior spine of the ilium, and 12 inches to the left. I tapped her of nineteen pints and a-half of fluid, to relieve the dyspnoea and pain of distension. There remained a larger mass than before firmly adherent on the left side (groin) ;