Word: ovarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days was often performed in a patient's house. The surgeon sent nurses ahead to prepare a room, the surgeon brought his instruments in a metal case to be sterilized on the stove, the family doctor gave the anesthetic. Dr. Erdmann once removed a large gallstone and an ovarian tumor from a large, 70-year-old woman in her home by the light of kerosene-burning auto lamps...
Next to closed tubes, the most common cause of infertility is infection of the cervix. This can usually be cleared up by good medical care. Sometimes doses of thyroid extract are needed to stimulate the ovaries. Treatment with ovarian hormones (estrogen and progestin), says the doctor, plays "no significant part in the treatment of sterility." Of course, if both ovaries have been mutilated or removed, a woman is permanently barren...
...practice grew with the population of the wheat belt, Dr. Mayo went back to Manhattan, studied surgery and gynecology. After he returned he began removing ovarian tumors, soon became so successful in the specialty that doctors came from all over the State to watch his work. He did not believe in antisepsis, always wore tails and top hat, and carried his instruments loose in his pockets...
...examined a woman with an enormous ovarian tumor. His father made plans for an operation the following Sunday, invited doctors from near & far to watch the performance. Then he went off to St. Paul for a consultation. On Sunday, a crowd of doctors gathered around the woman's bedside, but Dr. Mayo did not show up. Taking his courage in his hands, Dr. Will performed the operation himself. When his father came in, he was "speechless...
Cancer of the Uterus. Lacerations, erosions and inflammations of childbirth may easily develop into cancer. Most uterine cancer occurs in women who have borne five or six children. The use of irritating antiseptics in the vagina, and excessive activity of ovarian hormones, may also stimulate cancerous growths. Often uterine cancer develops with amazing rapidity, within a few months after labor. Only periodic pelvic examinations will reveal such early cancers...