The tumor was covered with veins the size of the
little finger. The apex of the heart was pushed to the 3d
interspace and the umbilicus had disappeared. There were 65
quarts of a thick, brown fluid in. the tumor. The patient
recovered in twenty-five days.
Cullingworth of St. Thomas Hospital, London, successfully removed
from a girl of sixteen an ovarian cyst weighing over 80 pounds.
The patient was admitted to the hospital April 30, 1895. She gave
a history of a single menstruation, which took place in March or
April, 1893, and said that in the latter month she noticed that
she was growing large. She was tapped at Christmas, 1893, when a
large quantity of fluid was removed, and again in February, 1894,
and a third time in May, 1894, but without useful results. For
the previous six months she had been almost entirely bedridden
because of the great size of the tumor. There were no symptoms
referring to the bladder and rectum. At the time she entered the
hospital she was much emaciated, the eyes were sunken, and her
cheeks had a livid hue. The chest was thin and the lower ribs
were everted; dulness began at the lower border of the 3d
cartilage, and the apex-beat was best felt in the third space.
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