Tioga County PA Archives News.....Mrs. John Kernan's Operation November 30, 1864
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The Agitator.: (Wellsborough, Tioga County, Pa.) November 30, 1864
Saturday, Nov. 12th, Drs. I. B. Graves of Corning, N. Y., and M. L. Bacon, of
Mansfield, Pa., operated on a Mrs. John Kernan at Mansfield, Pa., for ovarian
dropsy, removing twenty-five quarts of fluid from the abdomen. On the following
Tuesday Drs. Graves and Bacon assisted by Drs. Mills and Graves, Jr., of Corning, N.
Y., removed from the same person's abdomen ten quarts more of the fluid and an
ovarian tumor weighing twenty-five pounds. The operation, undoubtedly the greatest
one ever performed in this section of the country was in every respect successful.
Mrs. Kernan under the subsequent admirable treatment of Dr. Bacon of Mansfield is
rapidly recovering.

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