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After traveling 60 a long way on horseback through snow to the Crawford cabin, Dr. Ephraim McDowell examines his patient. He realizes that he's not coping with an overdue motherhood, but an enlarged ovarian cyst. He gives the patient the grim information that they can do nothing to save lots of her. She begs him to try to remove the life-threatening tumor. McDowell is well-aware that no surgery has ever before been attempted and that what the patient is requesting would be tantamount to butchery and murder. At the same time, he has long-believed that if carefully and properly executed, such a surgery could be successful. After all, family pets routinely endure spaying. With both their lives at risk, McDowell agrees to try the dangerous surgery if Jane will travel back again to Danville, Kentucky with him. Jane agrees to make the trip and on Christmas Day, 1809, Dr. Ephraim McDowell efficiently removed a twenty-two-pound tumor from the abdominal area of Jane Todd Crawford.
