Mr. Spencer Wells on Ovariotomy

Sir Spencer Wells's Abdominal Tumours and Revival of Ovariotomy

The Revival of Ovariotomy. By Sir Spencer Wells, Bart. Inaugural Address read before the Midland Medical Society. 1885. In the face of some recent controversy as to whom merit is chiefly due in establishing Ovariotomy among justifiable surgical operations, it is a significant fact that the Midland Medical Society should have invited Sir Spencer Wells to address them in Birmingham. From Birmingh...

Spencer Wells, the Life and Work of a Victorian Surgeon

been teaching anatomy for some two years, but Morgan immediately took it upon himself to arrange the opening of a medical school attached to the College of Philadelphia, without any consultation with his erstwhile fellow student. Morgan's remarkable inaugural lecture in May 1765, A Discourse upon the Institution ofMedical Schools in America was the climax of his career, and his plans and recomm...

Off the Beaten Path: An Interview with Spencer Wells

S pencer Wells has this geneticist’s dream job. He transits the globe, collecting DNA samples, building collaborations, and orchestrating what may be the most extensive and fascinating project on human origins yet, sponsored by one of the most respected institutions in the US—The National Geographic Society. There, Wells holds the oxymoronically named post of ‘‘Explorer-inResidence’’ and runs t...

Ovariotomy

Successful Ovariotomy

Kapurun, a Mussulman female, aged 40 years, was admitted into hospital on the 20th October, 1889, from the Durbhunga district, having been sent by Assistant Surgeon Moti Lai Mukerji, in charge of the Laheria Serai Dispensary, Durbhunga. History.?She stated that three years ago she first noticed a swelling of the abdomen, and that it had been gradually increasing. She has had three children, all...