A clinical history of the medical and surgical diseases of women / by Robert Barnes.
- Robert Barnes
- Date:
- 1874
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A clinical history of the medical and surgical diseases of women / by Robert Barnes. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![to the morbid hypertrophic extension. Injections are useful to deodorize the discharges. The best are of lead, perchloride of iron, creasote, or permanganate of potash. The after-treatment consists in rest, generous diet, tonics. If there is bleeding, a pledget of lint steeped in perchloride of iron can be ap- plied to the seat of the stump through a speculum. The ulcerations caused on the mucous membrane of the cervix and vagina by the chafing of the tumors will often heal now the cause is removed. If not, occa- sional touching with nitrate of silver will be required. Gooch very properly insists that we should not be deterred from dealing with poly- poid tumors under the doubt that they may be malignant. If cancerous growths assume the common mushroom-form admitting of being em- braced by a ligature, even in part, he has found it good practice to remove them. The hemorrhages are checked, and, at least, a respite is gained. The accuracy of this view has been lately confirmed by many practitioners. The sessile glandular polypi are easily removed by a fine wire- ecraseur. Prominent Nabothian glands or follicles are cured by simply puncturing them. The vascular polypi, if broadly sessile, are most effectually treated by the actual cautery, a convenient way of applying which is by the galvanic current. Placenta] polypi I have several times removed satisfactorily by the wire-ecraseur. The loop applied close at the base shaves them off com- pletely, or at any rate will so break up their tissue, that hemorrhage ceases, and the structure is quickly removed by disintegration. CHAPTER XLIX. TUBERCLE OF THE UTEEUS. Tubercular disease of the uterus may most fitly be considered before cancer. The uterus does not seem to be peculiarly prone to this disease, and when it is so affected, other organs or structures are almost invariably affected at the same time. The development of tubercle in the uterus has been especially observed to date from labor. This cir- cumstance suggests the hypothesis that the active physiological process of gestation and labor augments (he predisposition of (he uterus t<> In- come the seat of tubercular misohief, and thus determines or directs any constitutional tendency that may exist to this organ. There are](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21039884_0705.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
