Publication of account of multiple surgeries on "a servant"
- Title
- Publication of account of multiple surgeries on "a servant"
- Description
- Surgeon John Peter Mettauer published an article describing surgeries he had undertaken to relieve the occurance of vesico-vaginal fistula in two subjects: one a 34-year old woman, and the other a 20-year old woman, described as a servant and presumably enslaved. In his article, Mettauer describes operating on the latter woman at least eight times, at least twice a year, until he "relinquished the case." Though Mettauer considered the surgical procedure on the 34-year old woman successful, all of the operations on the 20-year old woman ended in failure, which Mettauer attributed to "sexual intercourse" which he believed "defeated several of the operations."
- Event Type
- Mention
- Action Status
- Completed
- Date
- July 1847
- Date Certainty
- Inferred
- Primary Participant
- Female Servant
- Primary Participant Description
- "Aged about twenty, of good constitution, and well-formed."
- Freedom Status
- Unknown
- Age
- 20
- Author
- John Peter Mettauer
- Additional Participant
- John Peter Mettauer
- Perpetrator
- John Peter Mettauer
- Symptom
- Vesico-vaginal fistula
- Treatment
- Surgery
- Source Resource
- http://otg.hsc.edu/api/items/426
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