laporotomy

Updated: May 2, 2025

Brinkley administers the local anesthetic, or the general anesthetic, if that is called for, as it sometimes is. While the bulk of the operations performed on both men and women are gland-transplantations, a diseased condition of tubes and ovaries has sometimes made a laporotomy necessary, and many major operations have been successfully performed in the white-enameled operating room.

Sydney Blanshard Flower - The Goat-gland Transplantation: As Originated and Successfully Performed by J. R. Brinkley,: M. D., of Milford, Kansas, U. S. A., in Over 600 Operations: Upon Men and Women