Contributions To The Surgical Treatment Of Tumors Of The Abdomen

Author : Thomas Keith
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ISBN 13 : 9781331942511
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Download or read book Contributions to the Surgical Treatment of Tumours of the Abdomen written by Thomas Keith and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Contributions to the Surgical Treatment of Tumours of the Abdomen: Part; II. Electricity in the Treatment of Uterine Tumours Dear Sir, Will yon allow my son and myself to dedicate to you the following account of our first attempts to follow you in your treatment of uterine tumours by electricity? It is all we can offer you for the kindness with which you received us at the various visits we have paid to your clinique. You gave us every information; you put everything at our disposal; the notes of every case treated by you for the last five years were open to us. For all these things accept our hearty thanks. Since we began your treatment, now more than two years ago, we have ceased to perform any operation on the uterus by abdominal section. For myself I have always had grave doubts if I were justified in performing such operations at all., especially hysterectomy, for the mortality attending this operation is out of all proportion to the natural history mortality of uterine tumours, and the results of it are out of all proportion to the benefits received by the few. As time went on, and the number of operations became larger, my doubts as to whether I were doing right continued to increase, and that too in spite of the comparatively low mortality with which I was favoured, more especially in my private practice. I never had any such doubts as to the propriety of performing ovariotomy, for if ovarian cysts be let alone, death is almost certain, and even that is only reached after great suffering. With hysterectomy it is quite different. Hysterectomy is a hazardous operation for the removal of a tumour that of itself rarely shortens life. The minor operation, on the other hand, - the removal of the ovaries - requires no surgical skill for its performance. It is a great mutilation to a woman, being simply castration; and women are beginning to find this out. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.