Abstract
It is now somewhat more than sixteen years since I began the electric treatment of fibroid tumors of the uterus after the method of the late Georges Apostoli of Paris, and having occasion recently to revise the subject for a work now in preparation, I have been strongly impressed with the desirability of giving to the profession a brief review of the practical results that have attended this work in this long series of years. The value of the Apostoli method was hotly contested in medical literature some years ago. The time has now come when a dispassionate conclusion as to its real value is in order. It may be recalled also by some of you that this society appointed a commission to investigate this question during this controversy. I think the date of this commission's appointment was in 1889 or 1890. I am not aware that a report was
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