The student's guide to the diseases of women / by Alfred Lewis Galabin.

  • Galabin, Alfred Lewis, 1843-1913.
Date:
1881
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Credit: The student's guide to the diseases of women / by Alfred Lewis Galabin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DISEASES OP WOMEN. proportion to the preponderance of the inflammatory element. It may, however, be a degenerative change under the influence of venous stagnation, or due M constitutional causes of degeneration of tissue. The! anatomical state finally reached, which has heel variously called areolar hyperplasia, sclerosis of ibe uterus, or congestive hypertrophy, may thus be brought about by different causes, either by a chronic inflainl matory process, or by conditions in'which there is no\ proof of inflammation as commonly defined. TVlncffl ever name be chosen, therefore, should be reserved for) the result produced, and not. applied to the process] leading up to it. The increase in thickness on the uterine walls is commonly greater in proportion! than that of the length of its cavity, so thai apart from cases of descent and tensile elongatiaB of the cervix, the organ assumes a more globulfl form. The cavity of the uterus, as measured by thfl sound, is usually not longer than 3-|-iu. or 4-iiM though sometimes it is increased to as much as 5-inM or even more. Varieties.—In most cases the hyperplasia affects both (In' body and neck of the uterus, though it com* monly preponderates in one or other of these, and may be confined to one portion alone. Among special'! forms of hyperplasia is hypertrophic elongation of tin supra-vaginal cervix. This is generally due in thai main to the tension of the vaginal Avail or prolapsed!! cervix, associated or not with causes of hyperplasia, cither primary or consequent upon the prolapse, audit has been discussed under the head of prolapse of thfl uterus and vagina. Another form is hyperplastic elongation of the vaginal portion of the cervix, tubs distinguished from hyperplasia affecting the cervix in its breadth, or in all its dimensions. This is a com- paratively rare.affection, and is more usually found in virgins or nullrparous women, being apparently in smne measure a congenital condition. It generally leads to prolapse of the first or second degree, and the profl