Word: ovarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part of the acknowledged armory of modern medicine to hold the climacteric responsible for all complaints arising in this period of a woman's life. The absence of specific symptoms is immaterial...Every complaint from toothache to corns may be explained by ovarian deficiency, and thus held to be merely functional-a consideration which delights the doctor but has never yet cured a patient...
Surgeons have been removing the ovaries of women with advanced cancer of the breast on the theory that the ovarian hormones (estrogens) favor the growth of the cancer. But Dr. Olof H. Pearson of Manhattan's Memorial Center found that this surgery seemed to slow the spread of such cancers in only 30% to 50% of the cases. With two other doctors, he conducted a close study of cases to learn...
...will do anything in the world to get pregnant,' yet when given diets and basal body temperature charts, they find many rationalizations for not dieting and keeping the monthly record." The last thing in the world that they really want, he contended, is weight reduction and the normal ovarian function which could make pregnancy possible...
...typical case is that of Mrs. H., a storekeeper's wife, who was bloated and miserable when she first went to the women's clinic of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital. She had had an ovarian cancer removed, but not soon enough: its colonies were spread around the lining of her abdominal cavity, causing it to fill rapidly with fluid. She had constant pain, cramps and constipation; she could not keep house, and had to be "tapped" regularly...
...cousin of Mary Todd Lincoln), to travel 60 miles on horseback to his surgery, though she was very ill. Lacking anesthesia, Jane Crawford kept up her courage by repeating the Psalms while Dr. McDowell made surgical history with the first ovariotomy - and removed a 15-lh. ovarian cyst...