An account of some new instruments for tying polypi of the uterus, nose and ear, and enlarged tonsils : with cases / [William Rawlins Beaumont].

  • William Rawlins Beaumont
Date:
1838
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Credit: An account of some new instruments for tying polypi of the uterus, nose and ear, and enlarged tonsils : with cases / [William Rawlins Beaumont]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and a half avoirdupois. Its weight before the division of its pedicle was probably near three pounds. It measured, whilst lying on a horizontal plane eight inches and a half long, five broad, and above two thick, being somewhat flattened by its own weight. The tumour was of fibrous texture, but of very unequal firmness in different parts, being much more compact at its proximal than at its distal end, and on its surface were three or four slightly elevated portions, rather larger than a shilling. [For permission to publish the two following cases, and also for the opportunity of assisting in the operations, I am indebted to Mr. Mayo, Senior Surgeon of Middlesex Hospital.] CASE II. POLYPUS OF THE UTERUS. Mary Coyle, about 50 years of age, or rather more, was admitted, in June, 1838, into Middlesex Hospital, on account of an uterine polypus, and was placed in Bird’s Ward, under the care of Mr. Mayo. The polypus was small, about the size of a chesnut, its pedicle about the size of one’s little finger. The body of the tumour seemed just to have emerged from the os uteri, that is, it was in contact with it, and the pedicle conse¬ quently wholly within the cervix uteri.