Notes on diseases of women / by James Oliver.

  • Oliver, James
Date:
1888
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Credit: Notes on diseases of women / by James Oliver. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the vagina, producing great discomfort. This discharge, which is invariably spoken of as thin and watery, although to a certain extent characteristic of cancer, must not be considered pathognomonic of the disease, for we find an exactly similar dirty brown watery discharge, although free from acridity, associated with the presence of an adenoid polypus, the mucous covering of which has gradually become eroded from vital pressure. The odour of a cancer- ous discharge is typical. It is not, however, infallible, for I have detected exactly the same odour in a patient suffering from discharge which had resulted from the detention of a small piece of placenta for twelve months, and which was undergoing necrotic changes. The innocent nature of the growth in this case was only revealed on microscopic examination. Sometimes the first thing that is noted by the patient is the production of a slight hae- morrhage on sexual intercourse ; this, however, be it remembered, may also result in cases of very extensive erosion of the cervix, mere friction producing laceration of the granula- tion capillaries. Haemorrhages, more or less profuse, recur from time to time, and with- out apparent reason. Large clots of blood are sometimes expelled from the vagina, The
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