Wells Cupples, and Chenoweth, on children of eight.
Rein performed ovariotomy on a girl of six, suffering from a
multilocular cyst of the left ovary. He expresses his belief that
childhood and infancy are favorable to laparotomy.

Kidd removed a dermoid from a child of two years and eleven months;
Hooks performed the same operation on a child of thirty months. Chiene
extirpated an ovary from a child of three; Neville duplicated this
operation in a child one month younger; and Alcock performed ovariotomy
on a child of three.

Successful ovariotomies are infrequent in the extremely aged. Bennett
mentions an instance in a woman of seventy-five, and Davies records a
similar instance. Borsini and Terrier cite instances of successful
ovariotomy in patients of seventy-seven. Carmichael performed the
operation at seventy-four. Owens mentions it at eighty; and Homans at
eighty-two years and four months. Dewees records a successful case of
ovariotomy in a woman over sixty-seven; McNutt reports a successful
instance in a patient of sixty-seven years and six months; the tumor
weighed 60 pounds, and there were extensive adhesions. Maury removed a
monocystic ovarian tumor from a woman of seventy-four, his patient
recovering. Pippingskold mentions an ovariotomy at eighty. Terrier
describes double ovariotomy for fibromata in a woman of seventy-seven.
Aron speaks of an operation for pilous dermoid of the ovary in a woman
of seventy-five. Shepherd reports a case of recurrent proliferous cyst
in a woman of sixty-three, on whom successful ovariotomy was performed
twice within nine months. Wells mentions an ovarian cyst in a woman of
sixty-five, from which 72 pints of fluid were removed.

Hawkins describes the case of a musician, M. Rochard, who at the age of
one hundred and seven was successfully operated on for strangulated
hernia of upward of thirty hours' duration. The wound healed by first
intention, and the man was well in two weeks. Fowler operated
successfully for strangulated umbilical hernia on a patient of
sixty-eight.

Repeated Operations.--Franzolini speaks of a woman of fifty on whom he
performed six celiotomies between June, 1879, and April, 1887. The
first operation was for fibrocystic disease of the uterus. Since the
last operation the woman had had remarkably good health, and there was
every indication that well-merited recovery had been effected. The
Ephemerides contains an account of a case in which cystotomy was