Removal of the uterus and its appendages for pelvic inflammatory disease /

It was supposed when we had all learned the lesson that Mr. Tait fought so long and valiantly to teach us, that the question of the treatment of pelvic inflammations and their ravages had been finally settled. The removal of the displaced and adherent Fallopian tubes and ovaries, which contained pus or whose tissues were hypertrophied and infiltrated with chronic inflammatory products, soon became a common procedure and the technique of the operation was so rapidly pushed to perfection that many operators arose whose results successfully rivaled those of Tait himself. Large numbers of women who had formerly been doomed to a hopeless invalidism were now restored