Wells mentions an ovarian cyst in a woman of sixty-five, from which 72 pints of fluid were removed.
Hawkins describes the case of a musician, M.Rochard, who at the age of one hundred and seven was successfully operated on for strangulated hernia of upward of thirty hours' duration.

The wound healed by first intention, and the man was well in two weeks.

Fowler operated successfully for strangulated umbilical hernia on a patient of sixty-eight.
Repeated Operations .-- Franzolini speaks of a woman of fifty on whom he performed six celiotomies between June, 1879, and April, 1887.

The first operation was for fibrocystic disease of the uterus.

Since the last operation the woman had had remarkably good health, and there was every indication that well-merited recovery had been effected.