Battey’s operation as a treatment for hysteria: a review of a series of cases in the nineteenth century (2020)
Komagamine, Tomoko (Author)
Kokubun, Norito (Author)
Hirata, Koichi (Author)
History of Psychiatry
Volume: 31
Issue: 1
Pages: 55-66
Ovarian resection as a treatment for hysteria, called ‘Battey’s operation’ or ‘normal ovariotomy’, was performed in the nineteenth century. Battey later reported that the resected ovaries appeared to have ‘cystic degeneration’. Currently, patients with acute neuropsychiatric symptoms are screened for teratomas for the differential diagnosis of anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. There is now a hypothesis that ovarian lesions resulting in paraneoplastic encephalitis were among the patients who underwent Battey’s operation. We identified 94 published cases of Battey’s operation for neuropsychiatric symptoms in the late nineteenth century. Among 36 cases with detailed descriptions, we found 3 patients who showed acute onset neuropsychiatric symptoms with macropathological ovarian findings that were compatible with teratoma. They showed favourable prognoses after surgery and might have motivated the surgeons to perform the operation.
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