ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO

ON OVER-OPERATING IN GYNAECOLOGY

Shortly afterwards came a brief but not very creditable period when “clitoridectomy” was strongly advocated as a remedy for numerous ills. This fortunately had a very limited currency and was speedily abandoned. Then followed a time in which displacement of the uterus held the field, and every backache, every pelvic discomfort, every general neurosis was attributed …