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The tumor was covered with veins the size of the little finger.

The apex of the heart was pushed to the 3d interspace and the umbilicus had disappeared.
There were 65 quarts of a thick, brown fluid in the tumor.

The patient recovered in twenty-five days.
Cullingworth of St.Thomas Hospital, London, successfully removed from a girl of sixteen an ovarian cyst weighing over 80 pounds.

The patient was admitted to the hospital April 30, 1895.

She gave a history of a single menstruation, which took place in March or April, 1893, and said that in the latter month she noticed that she was growing large.


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