AN APPRAISAL OF OVARIAN THERAPY.

Abstract

An appraisal of ovarian therapy, or of any other subject, must of necessity be tinctured with the personal element of the appraiser, so that it represents merely the point of view of an individual, based on such knowledge of facts as he may happen to possess. It presents more difficulty than does a mere survey of the literature, from which it differs to the same degree that the critique of a book differs from a mere synopsis of the book's contents. An accurate evaluation of such an undeveloped branch of therapeutics as that which forms the subject of this paper presupposes a finer judicial sense than the present writer can lay claim to. It is not easy to steer safely and sanely between the Scylla of over-enthusiasm and the Charybdis of undue skepticism. I may anticipate somewhat by saying that, of the two, Scylla looks much more dangerous to me than does Charybdis,