Dewees records a successful case of ovariotomy in a woman over sixty-seven; McNutt reports a successful instance in a patient of sixty-seven years and six months; the tumor weighed 60 pounds, and there were extensive adhesions.

Maury removed a monocystic ovarian tumor from a woman of seventy-four, his patient recovering.

Pippingskold mentions an ovariotomy at eighty.

Terrier describes double ovariotomy for fibromata in a woman of seventy-seven.
Aron speaks of an operation for pilous dermoid of the ovary in a woman of seventy-five.

Shepherd reports a case of recurrent proliferous cyst in a woman of sixty-three, on whom successful ovariotomy was performed twice within nine months.