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this is the true interpretation is rendered the more probable in 

 view of the cases referred to by Gordon, 1 Doran, 2 Meredith, 3 

 and others, in which pregnancy occurred after the supposed 

 removal of both ovaries (see also, p. 343). Doran 4 also records 

 a large series of cases in which menstruation entirely ceased 

 after ovariotomy. 5 



Morris 6 gives an account of a woman aged twenty, who 

 suffered from amenorrhoea, her uterus being infantile. He 

 states that he transplanted on to her fundus uteri an ovary 

 which he obtained from another woman, aged thirty. The 

 transplantation is said to have been successful, inducing men- 

 truation after two months. In another case Morris 7 states 

 that he transplanted an ovary into a woman whose own ovaries 

 had been previously removed, and that the graft was so far 

 successful that conception, followed by a normal pregnancy, 

 occurred as a result. It has been suggested, however, that in 

 this case a portion of the woman's original ovary may have 

 been left behind, and that this accounted for the pregnancy 

 (cf. p. 343). Glass 8 describes a case of a patient who was suffer- 

 ing from menopause troubles due to the extirpation of the 

 ovaries. After the transplantation of an ovary from another 

 woman had been effected, the patient was gradually restored to 

 health and menstruation was renewed. Dudley 9 mentions a 

 case in which a double pyosalpinx was removed, and the right 



1 Gordon, " Two Pregnancies following the Eemoval of Both Tubes and 

 Ovaries," Trans. Amer. Gyncec. Soc., vol. xxi., 1896. 



2 Doran, "Pregnancy after the Removal of Both Ovaries," Jo ur. Obstet. 

 and Gyncec., vol. ii., 1902. 



3 Meredith, "Pregnancy after Removal of Both Ovaries," Brit. Med. 

 Jour., Part I., 1904. 



4 Doran, "Sub-total Hysterectomy for Fibroids," Lancet, Part II., Nov. 

 1905. 



5 The continuance of menstruation after the removal of two ovaries may 

 be due to the presence of accessory ovaries which are occasionally known 

 to exist. 



6 Morris, " The Ovarian Graft," New York Med. Jour., 1895. 



7 Morris, " A Case of Heteroplastic Ovarian Grafting followed by 

 Pregnancy," &c., New York Med. Jour., vol. Ixix., 1906. 



8 Glass, "An Experiment in Transplantation of the Entire Human 

 Ovary," Medical News, 1899. 



9 Dudley, " tJber Intra-uterine Implantation des Ovariums," Internat. Gyn. 

 Congress, Amsterdam, 1899. 



