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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    floodings result from a spontaneous rupture of blood vessels, the walls of which are already- diseased ; or they may be due to an extension of the ulcerative process. Patients suffering from cancer of the uterus become as a rule rapidly aneemic, cachectic and emaciated. The recurring loss of blood, and the constant drain from the blood by secretion, soon tend to induce anaemia, whilst the more constant and rapid development of cachexia in car- cinoma, as compared with sarcoma, is due to the presence of lymphatic vessels in the growth itself. The haemorrhages are often most pro- fuse and alarming, the blood vessels having but little chance of retracting, and so closing, because of the character of the tissue sur- rounding them. Epithelial cancer, as it affects the uterus, may assume either the ulcerative or the fungous variety. The physical signs will of course vary according to the character of the growth in each individual case. The uterus may be invaded by a malignant disease which excavates the organ by a process of necrosis resulting from ulceration. In other cases, again, the new growth assumes somewhat the character of an excrescence, the structure especially in the case of the cervix becoming markedly augmented
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