Successful Ovariotomy
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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 of whom had died. The youngest, she says, would have been about 25 years of age had he lived. No miscarriages. Menstruation has ceased for about 2 years. She had been tapped six months previously at the
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