A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . l sur-face of the uterus, by a pedicle or stem. The size of thepedicle varies somewhat with the size ofthe polypus; although occasionally quitelarge polypi are attached by small pedicles,and, in other occasional instances, the smallpolypus has a pedicle about as thick as itsown diameter. The fibrous uterine polypususually exists singly, al-though I have known oneinstance where there wasone quite large fibrous pol-ypus in connection withseveral small fibrous growths at the sametime in the same uterus.
A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . l sur-face of the uterus, by a pedicle or stem. The size of thepedicle varies somewhat with the size ofthe polypus; although occasionally quitelarge polypi are attached by small pedicles,and, in other occasional instances, the smallpolypus has a pedicle about as thick as itsown diameter. The fibrous uterine polypususually exists singly, al-though I have known oneinstance where there wasone quite large fibrous pol-ypus in connection withseveral small fibrous growths at the sametime in the same uterus. The small mul-tiple fibrous growths of the body and cer-vix are termed vegetations of the endome-trium. The small and semi - organizedgrowths are termed mucous polypi. Hydatids of the uterus consist of numer-ous small cystic tumors generally attachedto each other like a bunch of grapes. Theenlarged mucous polypi are shown in theannexed cut, representing the growths as they existed in apatient whom I treated about two years since. These Fig. No. 35. — Fibrous Polypus, with short Fig. No Mucous Pol-ypi and ConstrictedVagina. UTERINE POLYPI. 353 growths, about two inches in length, looked much like aleech as used by our old-school brethren, and consisted ofsemi-organized fibrous tissue covered with mucous growths came away by the contractions of the uterusseeming to break them loose. They caused excessive hem-orrhage, and much pain was experienced previous to theirdischarge, which usually occurred every few weeks, with noregularity, from two to twelve being discharged at a patient was about thirty-five years of age, married tenyears, barren and exceedingly reduced in strength from lossof blood, pain, and sympathetic gastric derangement. Hertrouble had existed some seven }^ears. The vegetations of the endometrium or enlargement of thefollicles of the cervix sometimes exist in great are sometimes termed granulations of the cervicalca
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