Excerpt from The Monthly Cyclopedia of Practical Medicine, 1906, Vol. 9 This idea in the surgery of women is not a new one. Those who are old enough to have been through the stress of gynaecic surgery as it was evolving from its chaotic condition into something like sanity, will recall the line of argument by which the gynaecologist of twenty years ago made it appear like malpractice that if you removed one ovary you did not remove the other, lest it also become diseased and the woman made to undergo the hazard of again opening the abdomen. The fear was the danger of opening the abdomen 9. Second time, which transcended the value of a normal ovary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.