ISBN: 9780217985277

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General Books, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books St-Louis-Medical-and-Surgical-Journal~~General-Books General Books LLC Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A R T I C L E IV. Ovarian Tumor?Death, and Post-mortem Examination. [The following case of ovarian tumor is taken from a letter to one of the editors of this journal, from Dr. J. G. Womack of Jackson, Term.] A negro girl of mine, aged 16, was safely delivered of a living child on the 10th of September last. I arrived at my plantation about ten minutes after the birth of the child, and found the placenta lying loose in the vagina, which was taken away without any hemorrhage. My attention was then called to the condition of her abdomen, which was much swollen, with no marks clearly defined except in the lower portion, which seemed hard and unresisting. She complained of no pain, and I concluded, as I could not then form any diagnosis that was satisfactory to my mind, to let her rest. On the next day, finding the same condition of things, I prescribed castor oil with a teaspoonful of turpentine, thinking it was perhaps a case of tympanitis. The medicine operated well, with no change. 1 then requested my friend and relative Dr. Dashiell to visit her with me, which was done. Five days after delivery, he made a careful and thorough examination, and came to the conclusion, emphatically, that there was another child, and that he felt distinct motions, though he was unable to detect the click of the foetal heart. She remained in this situation about three weeks without any apparent change, either in size or constitutional symptoms; her appetite was good, her features regular, skin natural, milk well secreted and suckling her child, bowels regular, and in fact every thing seemingly doing well, except violent periodical pains, which I was informed by the old nurse came on every night. About ten days ago, some manifestations appeared of failing health; her skin, which was before bla...<