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Figure 263 shows the appearance of a large ovarian cyst weighing 149 pounds.

The emaciation of the subject is particularly noticeable.

Reifsnyder describes a native Chinese woman affected with an ovarian tumor seen at the Margaret Williamson Hospital at Shanghai.

She was four feet eight inches in height, and twenty-five years of age.

The tumor had been growing for six years until the circumference at the umbilicus measured five feet 7 3/4 inches; 88 quarts of fluid were drawn off and the woman recovered.


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