Cases of dropsical ovaria removed by the large abdominal section / by D. Henry Walne.

  • Walne, D. Henry (Daniel Henry), 1796-1866.
Date:
1843
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Credit: Cases of dropsical ovaria removed by the large abdominal section / by D. Henry Walne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REMOVAL DROPSICAL OVARIA *' In the operations of surgery, there are a number of little circumstances, several of which seem at first view to be of no great consequence ; but, when their observation or neglect comes to be attended to in practice, they are found to contribute considerably to a speedy or tedious cure, to bring on or prevent bad symptoms, to keep the patient easy, and preserve him, or to put him to pain, and bring him into danger ; and therefore their good or bad effects ought to be duly considered, and the proper cautions concerning them ought to be given by those who write for the public upon such subjects.—Remarks on the Amputations of the larger Extremities. By Alex. Monro (the first). It is now about twenty years since that able phy- siologist and discriminating physician, Dr. James Blundell, in calling the attention of surgeons to a series of facts and experiments calculated to illustrate its truth, made this observation: — Of all the branches of surgery, there is none, I conceive, which in this country admits of greater improvement than the surgery of the abdomen; and in prosecuting his comprehensive view of the subject, among other suggestions, foreign to my present purpose, he ad- vanced the opinion that extirpation of the ovarian B