Transactions of the Section on Gynecology of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia Volume 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1897 Excerpt: ... front, these adhesions, I could see, were recent ones and were readily broken up. The part that ruptured and poured out the sebaceous matter was immediately under the cut that I made in the abdomen. I fortunately had the intestines pushed back, .guarded with sponges, and as soon as it burst I drew the cyst immediately to the edge of the cut so as to prevent any of this broken-down sebaceous matter getting into the abdomen. It was guarded with sponges, and after the operation the abdomen was flushed thoroughly with an abundance of water from the back and bottom of the pelvis toward the surface, so that in case there was anything in there it would be got out. My idea in flushing is to get the stream well down to the woman's back--in other words, flush from the bottom upward; and that is the way this was done, and there were no bad symptoms after it. I know that the cyst could not have all grown in that little time. I said in the paper, at the beginning of her pregnancy she noticed a lump the size of an egg, and she noticed it again immediately after the accident ten days before. I have no doubt the cyst was there. I have no doubt the bones were ihere, but I do not think the large portion of the cyst was there. It is very hard to believe that a woman who has gone through three pregnancies cannot recognize a growth the size of a six and one-half months pregnancy in her abdomen. She is not a stout woman. She is a strong, healthy woman with a thin abdominal wall. Dr. J. M. Baldy reported A CASE OF VARICOSE VEIN OF THE BROAD LIGAMENT. There has been in the past considerable literature on the subject of varicose veins in the broad ligament, but there was a good deal of scepticism at the same time. It came from the hands of two or three men and was not taken up very ...