On a Case of Ovarian Dropsy
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after death was Miss M. O . Although of respectable parentage, she became dissolute in her habits, and for many years led a profligate life ; but, having become legally insane, she was placed, in 1856, being then in her thirty-eighth year, in Bethnall House Asylum, London, where she was under my care whilst medical officer in that institution. She was very violent, noisy, and obscene, intractable in disposition, and filthy in her language, and habits. To examine her was a matter of some difficulty, and it was owing to her peculiar mental condition that she had been suffering from ovarian tumour for some time before the exact nature of the abdominal enlargement was ascertained. In, and for some time previous to, March 1866, there was such an increase in size that her condition
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