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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    peritoneal growth may become inflamed and cause pain of a more or less severe character. The chief pain however is that resulting from pressure, and this especially when the tumour is so located, that it actually grows into the struc- ture, and develops between the layers of the broad ligament on either side. Pain is then referred to one or other side of the pelvis, and complained of as being radiated down the leg of the same side, either down the inside of the thigh as far as the knee, or down the back of the whole leg as far as the heel. Inflammatory changes may be set up in and around the tumours and produce compatible symptoms. The mucous membrane covering the tumour may disappear from pressure, and the growth thereafter slough more or less extensively, discharge of an offensive character being com- plained of, in association, it may be, with symptoms resulting from septic absorption. Occasionally, although rarely, the abdominal cavity becomes distended by serous exuda- tion, when one or more pedunculated tumours of the subperitoneal variety exist. The fluid exuded is the result of mere friction, as a rule, although at times it may be dependent upon inflammatory change. The physical signs of dropsy of the peritoneum under such circum-