Credit: The revival of ovariotomy and its influence on modern surgery : an address delivered at Birmingham, Nov. 5, 1884 / by Sir Spencer Wells. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material ...
He is known as the father of ovariotomy and abdominal surgery. The procedure was performed without any anaesthesia, which was only introduced in 1846. The modern-day Santa made Christmas extra jolly.
This pelvic deficiency thesis led some physicians to prescribe either surgical intervention during labor (a precursor of contemporary episiotomies) or reproductive controls, including ovariotomy and ...