[dancho]

This story is a bit like the game Telephone. The story is based on fact, but they're distorted. This actually took place in 1809, and the patient was dead before the advent of photography. So that woman is not from this story. Here is a copy of the story from the website of the foundation that runs the doctor's home, now a museum in Danville, KY. Still a good story without the ups and extras...

In 1809, Dr. McDowell was called to Green County, Kentucky, to see a patient, Mrs. Jane Crawford. Mrs. Crawford thought she was expecting twins. Upon examination, Dr. McDowell realized she had an ovarian tumor. After consultation with Mrs. Crawford, Dr. McDowell told her if she would travel to his home in Danville, he would perform the experimental surgery. Dr. McDowell returned home. Mrs. Crawford followed a few days later, sixty miles on horseback. She rested several days after her arrival.

Then on Christmas morning, 1809, Dr. McDowell began his historic operation. The ovarian tumor he removed from Mrs. Crawford weighed twenty-two and one-half pounds. The surgery was performed without benefit of anesthetic or antisepsis, neither of which was known to the medical profession at the time. Mrs. Crawford’s surgery was successful. She returned to her home in Green County twenty-five days after the operation and lived another thirty-two years. This was the first successful removal of an ovarian tumor in the world.

http://www.mcdowellhouse.com/history/

[goremama]

Holy shit and she rode to doc on a horse! What a woman!! The rest of us women are whiny bitches compared to her!

[carkees]

She LIVED?????

[Azimuth]

Originally Posted by dancho ↗

This story is a bit like the game Telephone. The story is based on fact, but they're distorted. This actually took place in 1809, and the patient was dead before the advent of photography. So that woman is not from this story. Here is a copy of the story from the website of the foundation that runs the doctor's home, now a museum in Danville, KY. Still a good story without the ups and extras...

In 1809, Dr. McDowell was called to Green County, Kentucky, to see a patient, Mrs. Jane Crawford. Mrs. Crawford thought she was expecting twins. Upon examination, Dr. McDowell realized she had an ovarian tumor. After consultation with Mrs. Crawford, Dr. McDowell told her if she would travel to his home in Danville, he would perform the experimental surgery. Dr. McDowell returned home. Mrs. Crawford followed a few days later, sixty miles on horseback. She rested several days after her arrival.

Then on Christmas morning, 1809, Dr. McDowell began his historic operation. The ovarian tumor he removed from Mrs. Crawford weighed twenty-two and one-half pounds. The surgery was performed without benefit of anesthetic or antisepsis, neither of which was known to the medical profession at the time. Mrs. Crawford’s surgery was successful. She returned to her home in Green County twenty-five days after the operation and lived another thirty-two years. This was the first successful removal of an ovarian tumor in the world.

http://www.mcdowellhouse.com/history/

The one in the OP and your's (stories) are two completely different cases altogether. The names, dates and locations are all different, so to be fair, I don't think you should assume the OP's didn't happen at all. If that's what you're saying. If I'm not clear on that I apologize.

[Rachee]

There is no way in hell she rode horseback 60 miles with that size of a tumor. Reminds me of the stories our grandparents use to tell about having to walk to school 10 miles barefoot in a foot of snow up hill.

[Sharon]

A truly amazing story of surgery and survival for the time

[Bastet]

I've never seen anything like that before She really was a tough lady to go thru all that.

[dancho]

http://quigleyscabinet.blogspot.com/...-crawford.html

[AMightyWind]

My God, you can see how much of a toll that takes. Look how old she looks.