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Identifier: operativegynecol9802kell (find matches)
Title: Operative gynecology
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Kelly, Howard A. (Howard Atwood), 1858-1943
Subjects: Genital Diseases, Female Generative organs, Female
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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r. H. C. Coe (New Yorh Polyclinic,May 15, 1896), entitled Sytnptomatic versus Anatomical Cure after Gyneco-logical Operations. One of the reasons why it is difficult to get at some of the remote results ofsuch an operation as castration, for instance, from the moral standpoint is thatwomen are natui-ally reticent about matters of sex. Again it must be remem-bered that many of these operations are performed upon poor women and thoseof the lower classes who are ignorant and wholly unused to protesting againstinjury of any sort, and who accept life as it comes (see Dr. Sarah E. Post, N.Y. Med. Jour., Sept. 21, 1887). In weighing the effects of castration we dare not leave out of sight the com-mon feeling that this particular operation is a degradation to women, and that the majority of physicians and all laymen look upon women deprived of theirovaries as imsexed. (See Dr. William Goodell, The Effect of Castration onWomen and Other Problems in Gynecologi/, Medical News, Dec. 9, 1893.) 518
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Fig. 589.—Post-operative Intea-abdominal Heenia. Strangulation and gangrene of the ileum, incarcerated in a band of adhesion.^ Death.The lower picture shows the size and form of the constricting band after the intestinewas lifted out. Case of Dr. Burgess. SCARCITY OF LITERATURE ON REMOTE RESULTS. 519 My own continued experience only serves to confirm my opinion that thecastration of women is often a direct cause of domestic unhappiness, and that ithas been repeatedly used by men as a good reason for breaking off engage-ments, and for the violation of marriage vows, and the abandonment of wifeand children. The husband of one of my patients, a highly educated clergyman, wrote, tenyears after the operation, in the following terms upon the ethical side of thisoperation and its effects upon the married life : While ovariotomy does not destroy sexual desire nor the pleasure of cohab-itation, yet the removal of the organs of motherhood causes a serious obstacle tothe affections due a wife,

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