The medical age : a semi-monthly journal of medicine and surgery . oughthe climacteric and flowing profuselyevery three months. There was a sorespot at the coccyx which rendered sit-ting painful; she had some leucorrhea,was very nervous, and felt generallymiserable. She had been treated withpessaries for retroversion. Examinationrevealed an enlarged, retroverted, andvery sensitive uterus, the cavity measur-ing 3_? 8 inches. The cervix was high upunder the pubis, and slightly ovaries and tubes were the operation nine fibroids varyingin size from a mandarin orange to a pe
The medical age : a semi-monthly journal of medicine and surgery . oughthe climacteric and flowing profuselyevery three months. There was a sorespot at the coccyx which rendered sit-ting painful; she had some leucorrhea,was very nervous, and felt generallymiserable. She had been treated withpessaries for retroversion. Examinationrevealed an enlarged, retroverted, andvery sensitive uterus, the cavity measur-ing 3_? 8 inches. The cervix was high upunder the pubis, and slightly ovaries and tubes were the operation nine fibroids varyingin size from a mandarin orange to a peawere enucleated, and the uterus held inposition by ventral fixation. Followingthe operation the temperature did notgo higher than °, but the pulse waserratic, ranging from 88 to 104. Thepatient has since improved in generalhealth, put on flesh, and considers her-self well. Fig. 4 shows this collectionof fibroids after transferring from thewomans abdomen to a glass jar. The photograph does fiot do themjustice, as they were much larger than they here Fig. 4 LEPROSY IS CONTAGIOUS. BY ALBERT S. ASHMEAD, , NEW Continued from page p_j. i As to the second point—that scientific proof is wanting—I believe Ihave said enough in preceding articles to have demonstrated, in fact,that nothing can be said against the existence of positive clinical scientific proof, with which it is thought that facts observed andreported by so many practitioners can be shaken, will never want of such a proof does not invalidate positive facts, for theseexist, ipso facto, without such proof. It will not do to attribute to this 128 LEPROSY IS CONTAGIOUS proof an exclusive importance, and make of its absence an irrefragableargument, putting aside the actual experimental development, ofwhich we have so many examples in the history of other pathologicalconditions. I maintain, the actual evolution being given, that it is premature tobuild on this argument, especia
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