A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . reda first early symptom of cancer of the cervix which hasbeen furnished by all his patients who were intelligent and cleanly enough to observe such a symptom. Inas-much as epithelioma of the cervix is characterized by amultiplication of epithelial elements and by increased,vascular supply to the cervix, the earliest functionalevidence of the disease is a mnrked increase in the wom-niis hdbitudl leucorrhcva, or the occurrence of a whitishlenc4>rrha;a in those who
A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . reda first early symptom of cancer of the cervix which hasbeen furnished by all his patients who were intelligent and cleanly enough to observe such a symptom. Inas-much as epithelioma of the cervix is characterized by amultiplication of epithelial elements and by increased,vascular supply to the cervix, the earliest functionalevidence of the disease is a mnrked increase in the wom-niis hdbitudl leucorrhcva, or the occurrence of a whitishlenc4>rrha;a in those who hare vot prerioiidi/ had it. Indrawing out this symptom, the questioner should fli-stdetermine the exact amount of discbarge which is nor-mal and usual to the individual. In refined women thetoilet embraces a certain amount of an<l frequency indouching, every day or every few tiays. Without as-signable cause such a woman will notice that her habitualleueorrhoea has become markedly increaseil, and that morefrequent douches are needed to keej) her tidy. In thecase of an old woman whose glandular structures have y^f! i^dP^. mmrm^^- Fk;. 4911.—Shows a Carcinomatous Mass in a Vein at somt* T>isIanoefrom ttie Original Seat of the I)isease. o, A vein confuinlnir a arri-nonial^jus mass; />. isolated mass of carcinomatous tissut-; <, trans-verse section of an artery: rf, section Ihrouph a vessel; <. musculartissue. (Abel.) shrunken with the menopause, a return of her forgottenleucorrhfea will be observed. Old women are apt tolook upon this as an evidence of rejuveuation, a patheti-cally mistaken interpretation. The writer has given suchprominence to this symptom in order that the atteutionof readers may be fixed upon it, and that more extendedobservations bj other physicians may either corroborateor correct him. In his cases this symptom has precededall others by from three to six months, months most valu-able to the surgeon and to the woman. But as a rulewomen, accust
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