red. She stated
that she had consulted a prominent gynecologist in this city, who had
told her that the attachments of the tumor were so extensive that
ovariotomy (removal with the knife) was out of the question, and that,
therefore, he could only give her palliative treatment. This unfavorable
prognosis only added mental anguish and despair to her physical
suffering. On examination, we found a large multilocular cystic tumor,
represented by Fig. 17, with very thick walls, extending from the left
ovarian region obliquely upwards and to the right, so that it pressed
more upon the short ribs on the right side than it did upon the left,
but which filled the entire cavity of the abdomen. The attachments, as
the doctor whom she had previously consulted had stated, were so
extensive that its removal with the knife could not be thought of. We
were not disposed, however, to give the case up as hopeless. We told her
that we would do what we could for her, but as to what the result of our
treatment would be, we could not definitely say. She placed her case in
our hands, and we resorted to the above described treatment. She was
treated two and three times per week for more than two months, at the
end of which time, the tumor had decreased in size fully two-thirds. It
has ever since remained stationary, and has given her no trouble or
inconvenience whatever. It is now seven years since we treated her.

[Illustration: Fig. 18.
U, Uterus. B, Bladder. R, Rectum. T, Tumor.]

CASE II. A young lady of 23; unmarried. About six months previous to
consulting us, she had discovered a tumor of about the size of an egg,
In the region of the left ovary, which had been gradually increasing in
size. On examination, we found the morbid growth to be about the size of
a quart bowl, and evidently composed of several cysts with thick walls.
She experienced no pain, and but slight inconvenience from its presence,
but she was in great mental distress. She was an only daughter, and her
mother had died a few years previously from the shock and hemorrhage
resulting from an operation for the removal of a large ovarian tumor,
performed by the late lamented Dr. Peaslee, of New York. The same course
was pursued in this case, and at the end of six weeks' treatment, the
tumor was reduced to the size of an egg, and has remained so ever since,
now more than three years.

CASE III. A woman,37 years of age; married six years; no children. She
had suffered for eig