Crossword-Solution: RESECTIONS 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

This noted operator performed, synchronously, double ovariotomy and resections of portions of the bladder and ileum, for a large medullary carcinomatous growth of the ovary, with surrounding involvement.

The utter hopelessness of the case justifies almost any means of relief, and many of the visceral operations, resections of functional organs, and extraordinary amputations that were never dreamed of in the early history of medicine are to-day not only feasible and justifiable, but even peremptorily demanded.

FAT EMBOLISM.--After various injuries and operations, but especially such as implicate the marrow of long bones--for example, comminuted fractures, osteotomies, resections of joints, or the forcible correction of deformities--fluid fat may enter the circulation in variable quantity.

Hippocrates says,--"Complete resections of bones in the neighbourhood of joints both in the foot, in the hand, in the tibia up to the malleoli, and in the ulna at its junction with the hand, and in many other places, are safe operations, if that fatal syncope does not at once occur, and continued fever does not attack the patient on the fourth day." Celsus and Ægineta both advise the removal of protruding ends of bone in compound dislocations, but without giving any cases.

The appearances which the opportunities of resections of the trigeminus for facial neuralgia have permitted to be discovered, have given us valuable information in that direction.