. Diseases of women. A clinical guide to their diagnosis and treatment. softand moist. The secretions retained in the sulci between thewTarts decompose, and become offensive. There is wmiteor yellow discharge, but not bleeding. From this feature,viz. a copious foul discharge, Emmett has called the labialswelling formed by a mass of warts, oozing tumour of thelabium (Fig. 150). The outgrowths are usually roughlysymmetrical, for the conditions wThich favour their growthare present equally on the two sides. Vulval warts growfaster during pregnancy, and retrograde during the puer-perium. Microscop
. Diseases of women. A clinical guide to their diagnosis and treatment. softand moist. The secretions retained in the sulci between thewTarts decompose, and become offensive. There is wmiteor yellow discharge, but not bleeding. From this feature,viz. a copious foul discharge, Emmett has called the labialswelling formed by a mass of warts, oozing tumour of thelabium (Fig. 150). The outgrowths are usually roughlysymmetrical, for the conditions wThich favour their growthare present equally on the two sides. Vulval warts growfaster during pregnancy, and retrograde during the puer-perium. Microscopically examined, their structure has beenfound to be that of an overgrowth of the papillae of the skin. Etiology.—This disease occupies an intermediate placebetween venereal and n on-venereal diseases. Warts are SWELLINGS OF THE VULVA, 497 generally associated with gonorrhoea; and they do not occurin women who are both chaste and clean, nor in those who,when they get venereal disease, promptly seek they are seen occasionally in children, and in young. Fig. 150.—Oozing tumour of labia. {After Emmett.) women whose chastity there is no reason to doubt. Theyare not inoculable. They are met with chiefly in youngwomen of the lower classes ; for women of mature years, andof higher social position have generally learned or beentaught the advantages of local cleanliness. Treatment.—When the warts are small, it will be enoughto keep the part very clean, and as dry as possible, and if thisis not enough, to touch the individual warts with a vaginal douche of zinc chloride, gr. v. ad Oj, tobe used twice or thrice daily. Tell the patient, after usingit. to hold the labia apart with one hand, and with the other G G 498 DISEASES OF WOMEN. puff from an insufflator oxide of zinc over the whole mucousmembrane of the vulva. Warts that are small and few willdwindle with this treatment. It some remain obstinate,touch them with either nitric acid or carbolic acid
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