Ovariotomy.—We have received the following note from Dr. W.L.
Atlee on this subject:
Dear Doctor: Since I placed in your hands the report of my
fourth and fifth cases of large peritoneal section, I have performed the
operation of gastrotomy twice. Both patients have recovered from
the operation, and no unfavorable symptom interfered with their re-
covery.
The sixth operation, which was exploratory, was on the 13th of Oc-
tober, the patient, Miss M. B., aged 43 years ; the incision extending
from one inch above the umbilicus to the pubis ; the tumour, uterine,
and not adherent. After deciding against its extirpation, the wound
was closed.
The seventh operation was on the 24th of November: the patient,
Mrs. T. H., aged 39 years; the incision of the same length, the tumour
fibrous, attached by a very thick dense pedicle to the fundus uteri,
weighing six pounds.
Chloroform was employed in both cases in the same way as in the
previous operations, and with the same happy results.
A report of these cases will be prepared for the “ American Journal
of the Medical Sciences.”	Very respectfully, &c.,
Washington L. Atlee.
To Isaac Hays, M. D.
Philadelphia, Dec. 22d, 1849.	Medical News.