A treatise on acute and chronic diseases of the neck of the uterus.

  • Meigs, Charles D. (Charles Delucena), 1792-1869.
Date:
1854
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Credit: A treatise on acute and chronic diseases of the neck of the uterus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

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    examples, the hypertrophy proceeds from the provoca- tion contained in a positively inflamed state of the corpus mucosum uteri. Such an inflammation is, virtually, an advanced vital sfatus, which stimulates the whole organ, and compels it to obey its natural law, which is that it shall wax or increase in substance, equably under certain stimulation. This is the power which enables it to go through those vast but equable mutations of its form and substance that coincide with gestations. One might well, from inspection of such a specimen, deem that the vital status of the corpus mucosum must be dangerously exalted. It exhibits many tubercular elevations, which, however, are soft and velvety to the touch. There was no ulceration; on the contrary, the entire surface was covered with its pavemented epithe- lium, which was so delicate, however, as easily to be broken by a sponge, or by imprudent, awkward mani- pulation with the tube. Madame Boivin seems to have conceived the idea that a tuberculated surface like this may possibly be the expression of a commencing stage of cauliflower degeneration, and the thought is worthy of attention. The patient from whom this drawing was taken, was rapidly cured, the irregularities of the surface subsiding to the ordinary smooth level, and all the excess of mag- nitude, sensibility, and color of the parts being taken away, chiefly by contacts of the nitrate crayon—in which surely resides a true antiphlogistic therapeutical