1856

By end of year, ovariotomy had been performed 97 times with 54 successes in U.S.; 123 times with 71 recoveries in England; 47 times with 13 recoveries in Germany; but still “unmercifully condemned in the first city of France” (Schachner, 177), where it was first advocated by a French surgeon, Nelaton, in 1861 (179).