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Extirpation of the uterus and ovaries for sarcomatous disease.

Nelson’s Amer. Lancet, 8, 147, 1854.

First successful abdominal hysterectomy, 25 May, 1853. An account of Burnham’s work is given by J. C. Irish in Trans. Amer. med. Ass. 1878, 29, 447-61.



Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY › Hysterectomy
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