Transactions of the American Gynecological Society, Volumen18

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Página 17 - It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened field ; Nor ours to hear, on summer eves, The reaper's song among the sheaves ; Yet where our duty's task is wrought In unison with God's great thought, The near and future blend in one, And whatsoe'er is willed is done...
Página xxi - BYFORD, AM, MD, Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children in the Chicago Medical College, &c., &c.
Página 4 - Thus he lived, and thus he died like a saint, unspotted of the world, full of alms-deeds, full of humility, and all the examples of a virtuous life ; which I cannot conclude better, than with this borrowed observation : - All must to their cold graves ; But the religious actions of the just Smell sweet in death, and blossom in the dust.
Página 4 - Achilles' horses, in Homer, under naked nominations, without deserts and noble acts, which are the balsam of our memories, the entelechia and soul of our subsistences. To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief, than Pilate...
Página 183 - Adhesions do not demand the removal of the tubes and ovaries, unless they be so dense that in breaking them the appendages are seriously injured. This presupposes that the appendages in themselves are not sufficiently diseased to demand removal.
Página 182 - Disease of the appendages does not always demand complete removal ; certain conditions permitting partial removal. "5. The condition of the ovary should be the chief factor in determining the question of procedure. "6. If the ovary contains pus, it and the associated tube should be removed ; it being the rule that whenever an ovary is removed the tube must accompany it. " 7. If the tube contains pus, the ovary being free from pus or disseminated degeneration, the operator is at liberty to amputate...
Página 179 - So far then as the ovary is concerned, my experience teaches that no matter what may be the fate of the tubes, not only should all sound ovaries be left, but every effort should be made to preserve to the woman as much sound ovarian tissue as possible—in this matter following Schroeder's well-known suggestion.
Página 182 - Operations on the Uterine Appendages With a View to Preserving the Functions of Ovulation and Menstruation:" 1 . As a rule, women are the better mentally and physically for the maintenance of menstruation and ovulation up to the period of nature's menopause. 2. The minor discomforts which pertain to the function, even though they be clearly dependent upon the ovary and tube, do not require removal of these organs. 3. The appendages may be operated upon to the promotion of child-bearing (four cases...
Página 5 - For having nicely weighed, whether it is better to be beneficial to men, or to be praised by them, I find the first preponderates, and much conduces to the tranquillity of mind. But as for fame and popular applause, they are lighter than a feather or bubble, and more vain than the shadow of a dream.
Página 379 - ... excellence in the arts is arduous beyond belief, yet, given that price, the arts take their place with other forms of intellectual activity, and are not to be ignored and treated as things of no weight, but to be recognized as essential factors in any reasonable theory of life. With such divergent views it is well from time to time to take stock of our position. How do we stand after the last hundred years of experiment ? We have tried track after track, and again and again found ourselves in...

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