FATE AND FUNCTION OF THE OVARIES AFTER HYSTERECTOMY

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The diverging views concerning the fate and function of ovaries that are retained after hysterectomy indicate that there are important problems still to be met in gynecology. Radicals and conservatives cite in support of their opinions the physiology of the ovary, its influence on metabolism and the normality of the individual, and its functional value at different periods in the woman's existence. Radicals claim that the ovaries are essential for proper growth and development only during infancy and childhood, when they serve as glands of internal secretion. They state that, at puberty, the ovaries assume their specific and important rôle of reproduction, menstruation being only a physiologic mechanism related to this process. After sexual maturity is reached, they hold that the ovary is without somatic influence and that it is concerned only with procreation. The radicals advocate the removal of the glands when hysterectomy is necessary in adult life, since

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