Sir Spencer Wells's Abdominal Tumours and Revival of Ovariotomy
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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 Birmingham chief!y have arisen the protests against the claims of Sir Spencer Wells to this position, and we can scarcely avoid the conclusion that this Address was intended to be reckoned either as
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Diagnosis and Surgical Treatment of Abdominal Tumours
ovarian and allied tumours. It is a thoroughly practical work, well written and illustrated, and is a valuable record of the author's long experience and work, which in great part form the history of ovariotomy. The chapter on the rise and progress of this operation is both interesting and instructive. As regards the influence of Listerism in lessening the mortality after ovariotomy, the author...
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naval hospital where he gained good general experience. Then his health became poor and he went on half pay for a time, during which he spent a year at Smyrna and Renkioi (in the Crimean War), and even began practice in London and gained an appointment at the Samaritan Hospital, which at that time was an insignificant place. He retired from the Navy in 1856 and concentrated on surgical work at ...
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The following sources were consulted and I gratefully acknowledge the information gained from them. FLEMING, J. B. (1960). Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of British Empire. MCKAY, W. J. S. (1922). Lawson Tait-His Life and Work. London: Balliere, Tindall & Cox. OXFORD, A. W. (1931). The History of the Samaritan Free Hospital. Cambridge: Heffer. PEASLEE, E. R. (1873). Ovarian Tumours. Lond...
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