Maury removed a
monocystic ovarian tumor from a woman of seventy-four, his
patient recovering. Pippingskold mentions an ovariotomy at
eighty. Terrier describes double ovariotomy for fibromata in a
woman of seventy-seven. Aron speaks of an operation for pilous
dermoid of the ovary in a woman of seventy-five. Shepherd reports
a case of recurrent proliferous cyst in a woman of sixty-three,
on whom successful ovariotomy was performed twice within nine
months. Wells mentions an ovarian cyst in a woman of sixty-five,
from which 72 pints of fluid were removed.
Hawkins describes the case of a musician, M. Rochard, who at the
age of one hundred and seven was successfully operated on for
strangulated hernia of upward of thirty hours' duration. The
wound healed by first intention, and the man was well in two
weeks. Fowler operated successfully for strangulated umbilical
hernia on a patient of sixty-eight.
Repeated Operations.--Franzolini speaks of a woman of fifty on
whom he performed six celiotomies between June, 1879, and April,
1887. The first operation was for fibrocystic disease of the
uterus. Since the last operation the woman had had remarkably
good health, and there was every indication that well-merited
recovery had been effected.
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