. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. orrhage and discharge may by curetting, but this process must be repeatedseveral times. When the haemorrhage is very profuseit is best controlled by hot vaginal injections of water,vinegar, dilute solutions of the subsulphate of iron,or tincture of iodine. Vaginal tampons, soaked in asaturated solution of alum or tannin, are useful, or thetampons may be applied with dry alum or tannin. Carcinoma of the body of the uterus is generally sec-ondary to tha
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. orrhage and discharge may by curetting, but this process must be repeatedseveral times. When the haemorrhage is very profuseit is best controlled by hot vaginal injections of water,vinegar, dilute solutions of the subsulphate of iron,or tincture of iodine. Vaginal tampons, soaked in asaturated solution of alum or tannin, are useful, or thetampons may be applied with dry alum or tannin. Carcinoma of the body of the uterus is generally sec-ondary to that of the cervix, and it is rare to find it origi-nating in this part. It may originate in the ovaries andspread to the uterus secondarily, but the usual course isto begin with the cervix and spread to the fundus, andinto the pelvic peritoneum and connective tissue. Pri-mary and secondary cancers of the body of the uterusare most common in very old women, and more frequentthan canctr of the cervix in virgins and nulliparae, andtheir frequancy lessens with recurring symptoms are the same as those of cancer of the. 499 REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. should be dilated,a portion of the
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