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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    animal kingdom we search in vain for a physio- logical change truly analogous with this. The serpent, it is true, may shed its skin more or less intact, but ere it casts off the old coat a new one is already regenerated to protect its body from all extraneous injurious influences. In vital structures change is wont to be gra- dual ; creation and destruction proceed together. There is apparently no departure from this inexorable law. Death of the mucous lining of the uterus takes place imperceptibly, and the change, as in all organs of the body, is one ever going on. In several cases I have ex- amined uteri removed from women who have died, not only during menstruation, but just before an expected period. In two cases the death was sudden, the patient at the time being in apparent good health. In three cases the uterine organ was invaded by growths of a fibroid character which were chiefly submucoid. To the naked eye the mucous lining appeared in all. in every respect, like that of a normal uterus examined at any time indiscriminately. In no case did I detect any breach in the con- tinuity of the lining membrane of the uterus, except in those in which this organ had be- come the seat of fibroid growths. In such the mucous lining had in places become markedly 3
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