Mears of Philadelphia reports a
case of ovarian cyst removed from a girl of six and a half by
Bradford of Kentucky in 1875. From this age on to adult life many
similar cases are recorded. Nearly every medical museum has
preserved specimens of dermoid cysts, and almost all physicians
are well acquainted with their occurrence. The curious formations
and contents and the bizarre shapes are of great variety. Graves
mentions a dermoid cyst containing the left side of a human face,
an eye, a molar tooth, and various bones. Dermoid cysts are found
also in regions of the body quite remote from the ovary. The
so-called "orbital wens" are true inclusion of the skin of a
congenital origin, as are the nasal dermoids and some of the
cysts of the neck.
Weil reported the case of a man of twenty-two years who was born
with what was supposed to he a spina bifida in the lower sacral
region. According to Senn, the swelling never caused any pain or
inconvenience until it inflamed, when it opened spontaneously and
suppurated, discharging a large quantity of offensive pus, hair,
and sebaceous material, thus proving it to have been a dermoid.
The cyst was freely incised, and there were found numerous
openings of sweat glands, from which drops of perspiration
escaped when the patient was sweating.
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