Alarming symptoms of collapse were present during the night after the operation, but the patient responded to stimulation by hypodermic injections of 1/20 grain of strychnin and of brandy, and after the first twenty-four hours the recovery was uninterrupted.
Cullingworth thinks that the most interesting points in the case are: the age of the patient, the enormous size of the tumor, and the advice given by the surgeon who first attended the patient (insisting that no operation should be performed).

This case shows anew the uselessness of tapping ovarian cysts.
In the records of enormous dropsies much material of interest is to be found, and a few of the most interesting cases on record will be cited.
In the older times, when the knowledge of the etiology and pathology of dropsies was obscure, we find the records of the most extraordinary cases.

Before the Royal Society, in 1746, Glass of Oxford read the report of a case of preternatural size of the abdomen, and stated that the dropsy was due to the absence of one kidney.

The circumference of the abdomen was six feet four inches, and the distance from the xiphoid to the os pubis measured four feet 1/2 inch.

In this remarkable case 30 gallons of fluid were drawn off from the abdomen after death.
Bartholinus mentions a dropsy of 120 pounds; and Gockelius one of 180 pounds; there is recorded an instance of a dropsy of 149 pounds.