It is undoubtedly true that sexual desire is sometimes destroyed by the operation. On the other hand, the sexual desire is very often restored by the operation, which relieves the former dyspareunia, or painful coitus.


INDEX.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Diseases of the Ovaries, 1883, p. 6.

[2] Heape, Trans. Obstet. Soc. of London, vols. xxxvi., xl.

[3] New York Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, March, 1894, p. 282.

[4] “The Ligature in Oöphorectomy,” read before the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery, February 3, 1896.