SUGGESTIONS ABOUT ABDOMINAL AND PELVIC SURGERY.Read in the Section of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women at the Forty-second Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, held at Washington, D. C., May, 1891.

Abstract

The recent contributions upon abdominal and pelvic surgery are probably more numerous and practical than upon any other department of general or special surgery; still, there is a variety of opinion as to the best methods of treating pathological conditions within the peritoneum, or as to the immediate or permanent results of the many procedures that have been practiced. This is especially true of pelvic surgery, where we find, in the practice of the most experienced and successful operators, accidents during the operation and complications following it, for the prevention of which, there is no united opinion as to the correct technique to adopt; nor is it always possible to explain why troublesome complications occur in one case, and do not occur in another apparently similar case. Careful observation and experience may finally teach us much wisdom in these matters, and I will ask your kind indulgence while I briefly