The people's common sense medical adviser in plain English, or, Medicine simplified . tion before the system and its supportshave been properly strengthened by a course of tonic treat-ment, it will fall back into the position which it previouslyoccupied. Hence replacement by operation should not fiist beresorted to in these cases; generally it will not be required atall, and when it is, it should be followed by a protracted courseof tonic and restorative treatment. ULCERATION OF THE UTERUS. 1705. Ulceration is the process by which ulcers, or sores, areproduced. It is characterized by the secre
The people's common sense medical adviser in plain English, or, Medicine simplified . tion before the system and its supportshave been properly strengthened by a course of tonic treat-ment, it will fall back into the position which it previouslyoccupied. Hence replacement by operation should not fiist beresorted to in these cases; generally it will not be required atall, and when it is, it should be followed by a protracted courseof tonic and restorative treatment. ULCERATION OF THE UTERUS. 1705. Ulceration is the process by which ulcers, or sores, areproduced. It is characterized by the secretion of pus, or somefetid discharge, and is continued as a local disease through theoperation of constitutional causes. Ulcers are generally symp-toms of other morbid conditions. Ulcers may form in the mouth or neck of the uterus, and,omitting cancerous ulcers and those of a syphilitic character,which are considered elsewhere, may be classified as Granularand Follicular. 1706. Orauillar Ulcer. This variety of ulcerativedegeneration is the most frequent, and may exist for some time. The Fergnsson Speculum. without exciting any suspicion in the mind of the patient thatshe is afflicted with any such morbid condition. There is localinflammation, and the mouth of the uterus is uneven, rough, ULCERATION OF THE UTERUS. 761 and granular. If an examination be made with the speculum,the mouth of the uterus is often found in the condition repre-sented in F\g. 22, Colored Plate IV. 1707. Figs. 180 and 181 represent two different forms ofspecula. The one represented by Fig. 180 consists of a tubeof glass coated with quicksilver and covered with India rubber,
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