On polypus uteri / by Robert Dyce.

  • Dyce, Robert, 1798-1869.
Date:
[1867]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On polypus uteri / by Robert Dyce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    effected. This was continued for half an inch, and then passed around until the whole circle, which was as large as a shilling, was separated. A sponge tent was introduced. She then com¬ menced taking ten drops of the liquid extract of ergot of the pharmacopoeia every two hours. On the following day, she had gnawing pains in her back and vomiting after taking the drops. They were therefore omitted for twenty-four hours and a larger tent passed within the os. The next day, being less sick, she was examined under chloroform, and the tumour further detached by the finger as far as could be reached, but from the smallness of the external orifice, this did not exceed 2 inches. The ergot was in¬ creased to twenty drops. On the fourth day, the drops were in¬ creased to thirty every two hours. During the night she slept little or none, from the pain and continuous straining efforts ; and next morning she saluted me with the remark, “ that she was sure she was to be delivered of something.” On examination, a mass, as big as the closed fist was protruding through the os, which I removed. After this she had no pain for some hours, and the drops were increased to forty every two hours. From this time, numerous similar rounded pieces, varying in size, continued to come away, or were removed by the hand, for ten days, accompanied with a copious watery foetid discharge. I need not prolong the details. She gradually recovered her strength; and on the twenty-first day from the commencement of the treatment, she left the hospital quite well. I saw this patient yester¬ day (15th October). She has grown fat, and been in perfect health, has menstruated healthily, while the os, cervix, and size of the uterus is perfectly normal. The weight of the tumour preserved is six pounds twelve ounces: it is purely fibrous in its character. EDINBURGH : PRINTED BY OLIVER AND BOYD.