An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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CLAY, Charles

2 entries
  • 6032

Cases of peritoneal section, for the extirpation of diseased ovaria, by the large incision from sternum to pubes, successfully treated.

Med. Times, 7, 43, 59, 67, 83, 99, 139, 153, 270, 1842.

Clay, pioneer ovariotomist in Great Britain, introduced the word “ovariotomy”. (See also his later paper, No. 6054.)



Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY › Oophorectomy
  • 6054

Observations on ovariotomy, statistical and practical. Also, a successful case of entire removal of the uterus and its appendages.

Trans. obstet. Soc. Lond., (1863), 5, 58-74, 1864.

For many years Clay was the most eminent ovariotomist in Great Britain. In all, he performed 395 ovariotomies, with a mortality of 25 percent.



Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY › Oophorectomy