Treatise on gynæcology : medical and surgical . osions it would be a curious fact. The observations ofKlotz25 seem to favor this view. According to him there are patientswho suffer from erosion or ulceration under the influence of the THE PATHOLOGY AND ETIOLOGY OE METRITIS. 151 lightest inflammation, wliile others, though there be a severe cervicalcatarrh, never present such changes. This author, moreover, insists on the anatomical differences of theindividual as regards the adult and the virginal conditions of thecervix and the line of demarcation between the two kinds of epithe-lium. It woul
Treatise on gynæcology : medical and surgical . osions it would be a curious fact. The observations ofKlotz25 seem to favor this view. According to him there are patientswho suffer from erosion or ulceration under the influence of the THE PATHOLOGY AND ETIOLOGY OE METRITIS. 151 lightest inflammation, wliile others, though there be a severe cervicalcatarrh, never present such changes. This author, moreover, insists on the anatomical differences of theindividual as regards the adult and the virginal conditions of thecervix and the line of demarcation between the two kinds of epithe-lium. It would seem, then, that certain women are especially exposed,by a congenital idiosyncrasy, to cervical metritis. Ulceration [erosion] is a term applied to still another kind of ap-pearance : namely, where the entire circumference of the os, or only apart of it, seems to be depressed over a circumscribed area, presentinga circular edge and a smooth, red surface or one covered with have always regarded this condition as an actual. Fig. 108.—A Portion op the Mucous Membrane of the Previous Figure more Highly Magnified(Cornil). X 200diam. a, Thickness of the superficial epithelial layer, formed of cylindrical cells muchelongated; e, interpapillary depression; t, connective tissue. loss of substance with destruction of the tissue, giving it the nameof ulceration of the cervix, and some of them singularly mag-nify its importance. Lisfranc made this the capital symptom ofhis uterine engorgement; for him, it was the principal followed a reaction, and Gosselin 26 had the courage—great forthe period when he formulated the opinion—to assert that ulcerationwas not at all a disease, but merely the symptom of the uterine catarrhwhich Meliers27 work had made known to the profession. It is not asan inflammatory lesion, he declared, which reacts upon the system(Recamiers and Lisfrancs opinion), that ulceration is serious in itseffects, but solely by the enfee
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