The first ovarian tumor removed weighed 22.5 pounds

In 1809, Dr. Ephraim McDowell was summoned to Green County, Kentucky to see Jane Crawford, a woman who’d been diagnosed with a past term pregnancy. Dr. McDowell diagnosed Jane with an ovarian tumor.

At that time there was neither treatment nor surgery available to treat ovarian tumors. Jane begged Dr. McDowell to do surgery on her, because she didn’t want to die slowly and painfully. She rode by horseback 60 miles to his practice to have the surgery.

There was no antisepsis or anesthetic at that time in the medical practice. Dr. McDowell successfully removed the 22.5 pound tumor without any complications. It was the first to ever happen.

She recovered for 25 days and then returned home. She lived for another 32 years and it wasn’t until 1817 after two more successful ovarian surgeries that Dr. McDowell published information on his work. It was a major success and step forward in the medical community.

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