Excerpt from the meeting of the Council of Physicians of the Kazan Tubernsk Zemsky Hospital on April 13, 1894

Dr. IM Lvov showed the following preparations: 1) A cancerous-degenerated uterus removed through the vagina in a 37-year-old patient, the cervix was crater-like eaten away, but the cellulose was not affected. Operation without any particular difficulty; the patient is recovering. 2) The right ovary enlarged to the size of a goose egg and containing a septicemic focus the size of a hen's egg and the same size serous cyst, removed together with the right fallopian tube through the vagina in a 25-year-old patient who also had retraversionem uteri fixatam. The operation is very easy, the uterus is separated from the joints and placed in the correct position. The patient recovered. 3) a 3-week-old fertilized egg with an embryo in it.