The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-03-03
paitp ARGUS.
Thursday Evening, March 8, 1870.

EDITOR ARGUS For the benefit of the
public, send you short report of the oper
alton, treatment add convalescence of Mrs.
W. h Thompson. do so because the case
was very remarkable In many particulars,
and the result different from what was gen
orally supposed would be if the operation
was performed | stood almost alone In
opinion that she would recover, but my i'm
tied experience in such cases led me 10
believe. with all ordinary complications she
would rally under the power OF maghe'e
treatment. m
The operation, as your readers VIII recon
lect, was for the removal OF Il large ovarian
tunor, weighing about twenty POUNDS ana
WAS performed on February I'd, 1870, IN the
nresapce and with the assistance of Drs
Worley, AFTER, Hewes and Dart, and oceu.
pied, from the commencement of giving
chloroform to the completion of the dress
ing. forty-hve minutes. On cutting down to
the tumor, found adhesion so strong to the
abdominal wall that it was impossible to
separate the tumor from the Peritoneum
without doing great injury to the latter, as
we'll as opening cyst of the tumor. This
strong attachment, however, was quite
limited, being only about four inches in
width by about eight in length. The tumor
was composed of q great number ofcysts OF
cells, each containing from gill to quart
of liquid of different density, SEINE clear
reese mbling the white of an egg, and full as
thick.
After the adhesion were broken down the
tumor was raised out of the abdominal
cavity, when 1t was discovered that the
pedicle was very short, not exceeding an
inch in length by nearly four in width This
made it very difficult to hgate, which, ho"
ever, was done by trsnshxing the Peuioie
with double igature and lying each way )
which was done tightly rs possloie out
when the tension was taken OH by remov
ing the sumor, we discovered that the pedi,
Gle was bleeding profusely and it was with
difficulty that a sufficient amount of the
pedicle could be raised to secure the bleed
ing vessels. This delayed the completion
OF the operation ten or fifteen minutes
What will surprise many of your readers
most, in the fact that she never took par.
,lele of medicine of any description from
first to last, and the wound healed kindly
without any medicsted spphcation-no,
even water was used. There was no sp
pearance of infsm nation at any time and
her pulse on the third day after the opera
ton was only seventy per minute, full and
sou, Gnu Nhs Hot opOFc az al
time during her convslescence.
On the fourteenth day she got up and
walked out into an adjoining room and sat
in q chsir an hour or two. Since then she
has gained strength rapidly and on the 2lst
she rode about mile in carriage aud is
pronounced we'll. In this connecticut might
say, in justice to others, that Mrs. l.. E
Dart and DR.. G. R. F. Hewes gave very
minute and perfect clsirvoysnt description
of the tumor and its attachments three o,
four days before the operation.
This is the third ovarian tumor that
have removed in the last three years, all o
which were successful; although rockies
careiessness caused the death of one, afte
she was considered out of danger and can
not righttully be counted against the opera
ton.
4 J. GROVER,
Rock Island, March Sd. 1870.