10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVARIOTOMIES»
Discover the use of
ovariotomies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
ovariotomies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A First Series of Fifty-Four Consecutive
Ovariotomies: With ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
A. C. Butler-Smythe, 2011
2
Health, Medicine, and Society in Victorian England
a few years.8 Ovariotomies, accordingly, were performed more and more
frequently, despite awareness of an appalling death rate. Baker Brown's first
three ovariotomies all ended in death, yet he had such faith in the ''ultimate
efficacy of ...
Mary Wilson Carpenter, 2010
3
S. Weir Mitchell, 1829-1914: Philadelphia's Literary Physician
11 Significantly, the London meeting was debating only ovariotomies performed
for physical disease, yet the overall tone and message remained decisively
critical. Mitchell attended this meeting in 1850. Just one year later Lee returned
with ...
4
Silent Sisterhood: Middle-class Women in the Victorian Home
In 1872, the British Medical Journal published its findings of a survey on the
number of ovariotomies performed in the leading London hospitals. The report
indicated the limitedness of surgical treatments. In 1866, St Bartholomew's,
Middlesex, ...
5
Moments of Unreason: The Practice of Canadian Psychiatry and ...
Thousands of young middle- and upper-class women, usually in their thirties,
underwent bilateral ovariotomies on healthy organs for the treatment of
amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, and any other form of "pelvic pain, hysteria or
convulsive ...
Cheryl Krasnick Warsh, 1989
6
The thorax. The organs of digestion. The genito-urinary ...
Sir Spencer Wells' statistics show that the mortality of double ovariotomies is 12
per cent. higher than that attending the ordinary operation. In many instances two
successive ovariotomies, undertaken at varying intervals, have been performed ...
Sir Frederick Treves, 1785
7
The History of Surgery in the United States, 1775-1900: ...
He writes: Of my first five unantiseptic ovariotomies all died. Of my antiseptic
ovariotomies 248 have recovered and 34 have died. About one quarter, probably
, of all the fatal cases are to be attributed to some error or carelessness of mine, ...
8
The Politics of Women's Health: Exploring Agency and Autonomy
Similarly, doctors acted according to the prevailing treatment within the medical
culture at any particular time. Certain physicians innovate and discover that new
procedures can offer patients relief from their pain. When ovariotomies were first
...
9
The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, ...
In 1871 Tait reported ten ovariotomies with three deaths. At this stage he used
what he called 'Listerian precautions', but without much conviction: My opinion of
the antiseptic treatment is that its merits have been greatly over-rated, and its ...
10
For Health and Beauty: Physical Culture for Frenchwomen, ...
Because asepsis improved the safety of operations and required costly
installations, the number of operations increased.26 In the United States and
Germany, many surgeons performed hysterectomies and bilateral ovariotomies
on women in ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVARIOTOMIES»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
ovariotomies is used in the context of the following news items.
True Tales: Massapoag Meadows
Cabot's most important accomplishment in medicine was performing (alongside his son) the first two successful ovariotomies in Boston. In 1874 ... «Canton Citizen Newspaper, Jun 14»
Dec. 13, 1809: First Removal of Ovarian Tumor
He went on to perform eight more ovariotomies. Another notch in McDowell's distinguished medical bedpost occurred when he operated on ... «Wired, Dec 10»
