Contributions to the surgical treatment of tumors of the abdomen. Part II. Electricity in the treatment of uterine tumours / by Thomas Keith and Skene Keith.

  • Keith Skene, 1858-1919.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Contributions to the surgical treatment of tumors of the abdomen. Part II. Electricity in the treatment of uterine tumours / by Thomas Keith and Skene Keith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. ♦ In the following pages we tell, in the simplest language, the story—perfect or imperfect, or merely experimental— of every patient with uterine tumour who, up to the end of last year, submitted herself to be treated by electricity. We have followed Dr Apostoli's method to the best of our power, and we have always found him an exact and truthful guide. It is therefore needless, with the ample instructions he has given, to go over the details of his process. Those who are acquainted with his work will easily understand our ways. No attempt at classification of the cases has been made. We leave every one to draw his own conclusions. Various circumstances have interfered with earlier publi- cation. For long we had doubts as to the permanency of the treatment in the early cases. The later work has been much more satisfactory. But now more that two years have passed, since all operations were given up for this treatment; and our first patient writes—and no one could have had more haemorrhage—that she has been perfectly well all summer, climbing hills and rowing in a boat. Another of the early and doubtful ones, who could never bear a large dose of electricity, tells us,— I am now in excellent health, without an ache or pain of any kind, and my periods are just a show and nothing more, and give me no discomfort whatever. I hope you have been as suc- cessful with all your other patients as you have been with