A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . andstrangulate it, causing it to soften and decay, when we maytake it away piecemeal with the vulsellum forceps, or we mayallow nature to slough it off. To Dr. J. Marion Sims * are we indebted for a knowledgeof the efficacy of sponge tents in destroying fibroid accidentally made the discovery by placing a sponge tentin the uterus and forgetting it about a week, when, upon the * Sims Uterine 370 EATON ON DISEASES OF WOMEN. removal of the tent the polypus was found destroyed. I hav
A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . andstrangulate it, causing it to soften and decay, when we maytake it away piecemeal with the vulsellum forceps, or we mayallow nature to slough it off. To Dr. J. Marion Sims * are we indebted for a knowledgeof the efficacy of sponge tents in destroying fibroid accidentally made the discovery by placing a sponge tentin the uterus and forgetting it about a week, when, upon the * Sims Uterine 370 EATON ON DISEASES OF WOMEN. removal of the tent the polypus was found destroyed. I haveproven this to be an efficacious means of destroying thosefibrous polypi which we could not conveniently remove byordinary operation. I have not left a tent longerthan thirty-six hours in the uterus; but upon re-moving it I have inserted another (after washingout the vagina with injections of warm carbolizedwater), and letting it remain another thirty-sixhours, and have thus caused the destruction oflarge fibrous polypi, so that I removed thempiecemeal with the vulsellum forceps. Needles. Fig. No. 41—Electrolysis Needles. charged with electricity have been used to de-stroy these polypi, as have injections of Tr. Ironor Iodine; but we deem these measures inferiorto those previously described. After Treatment. — After the polypus hasbeen removed, there is usually little treatmentrequired beyond giving a nourishing diet and re-quiring rest in the recumbent position. Shouldthere be great exhaustion China, Ars., Nux, Rhus, Sepia, Fer-rum, Ignatia, Phos., or Canthar., may be indicated by the to-tality of the symptoms. But the symptoms requiring these
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