A case of fibrous tumor of the uterus, accompanied with excessive haemorrhage : successfully treated by excision / by B. Fordyce Barker.

  • Barker, Fordyce, 1819-1891.
Date:
1857
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Credit: A case of fibrous tumor of the uterus, accompanied with excessive haemorrhage : successfully treated by excision / by B. Fordyce Barker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EXCESSIVE Hi:MORRHAGE; REMOVAL BY EXCISION. BY B. FOKDYCE BAKKEE, M.D., ifPKOFESSOR OF MIDWIFEUY, ETC., IN THE NEW TOKK MEDICAL COLLEGE ; PHYSI- CIAN TO BELLEVUE HOSPITAL, ETC, 1 I Mrs. , aged 46, motter of three cliildreo, the youngest of which iis 13 years old, has for three years past been suflFering from occasional .attacks of uterine haemorrhage, some of which have been exceedingly severe. During the past year she was principally under the care of |i Prof. Trousseau, of Paris. In September, 1856, Dr. A. Hamilton Smith, \ her usual medical attendant, was present at a consultation in Paris, when ■ her case was carefully examined by MM. Trousseau, Velpeau, and Nela- ;ton, and the result of their deliberations, as stated to me by Dr. Smith and the patient herself, was that the haemorrhages were due to a non- ipediculated fibrous tumor of the uterus, which was not susceptible of ) removal by an operation, but which possibly might eventually become ipediculated. I first saw Mrs. Dec. 28th, 1856. She had returned from Europe a few weeks before. Menstruation commenced the 22d, but there was no profuse haemorrhage until the 26th, when it became ' very abundant. She had vainly endeavored to arrest it by the use of alum covered with cotton batting in the vagina, the local application of 'ice, and by various internal remedies recommended to her by Prof. Trous- seau. The numerous prescriptions which he had made out for her com- prised almost every known variety of styptic and astringent agent in use, and was a convincing proof of the severity of her former attacks. Her condition, when I first saw her, was such as to excite the gravest appre- hension. Her countenance was sallow, pinched, and haggard; her res-