A practical treatise on inflammation of the uterus, its cervix and appendages : and on its connexion with uterine disease . The virgin cervix. Fiir. The virgin cervix, inflamed and ulcerated. whether she had presented any uterine symptoms previous to her fatalillness, although they no doubt had existed. On making a post-mortem examination, he found the hymen smalland intact. The cervix uteri, however, was much hypertrophied andextensively ulcerated, as will be seen in the woodcut. I may mentionthat the drawing, which is mathematically correct, was taken from thediseased cervix after it had
A practical treatise on inflammation of the uterus, its cervix and appendages : and on its connexion with uterine disease . The virgin cervix. Fiir. The virgin cervix, inflamed and ulcerated. whether she had presented any uterine symptoms previous to her fatalillness, although they no doubt had existed. On making a post-mortem examination, he found the hymen smalland intact. The cervix uteri, however, was much hypertrophied andextensively ulcerated, as will be seen in the woodcut. I may mentionthat the drawing, which is mathematically correct, was taken from thediseased cervix after it had been macerating for- many months inalcohol, and that consequently the ulcerated neck must have been evenlarger in the fresh state. This engraving is a very accurate repre-sentation of the condition of the uterine neck as to hypertrophy andulceration, in many of the cases which I have seen in the virgin; insome, the ulceration is more, but in most it is much less extensive. Itwill be easily understood that the finger of an experienced practitioner,passing over such a cervix, could not fail to recognize the gaping, openstate of the os uteri, so di
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