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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopathy"Page 77 of 6536S2 Diseases o( the Female Sexual Organs.are attacked by this terrible destroyer. Cancer of the uterns isof the most frequently occurring fomis of carcinoma, and not unfrquently runs its course as a solitary cancer. It is only in rarethat it breaks out in addition to cancerous degenerations of otheorgans.The most ordinary form is medullary cancer, whereas scirrhusand alveolar cancer are very rare; epithelial cancer is a littlefrequent. The medullary cancer usually commences at the vaginalportion of the uterus as a very firm, rugged infiltration, whencespreads to the fundus and to adjoining organs, especially the blader and rectum. The less firmness it possesses, the sooner it becconverted into pus or ichor^ in consequence of which enormous destructions of tissue may take place. Epithelial cancer always commences with cauliflower-excrescences at the os tincfie so that thexcrescences seem to have taken the place of the os, or at any racoalesce with it. The excrescences seem to grow out o£ the papillof the OS ; at first they resemble condylomata and afterwards sprlike a fungus, with marked vascular development. As the fungoidgrowth increases, the elements of epithelial cancer unite with thformer and the mass decays and changes to ichor. It is not certaiwhether these excrescences are really carcinomatous at the outsetat any rate^ the fact, that they have been successfully extirpatethrows doubt on the correctness of the canceivhypothesis.Hartmann relates a form of disease the carcinomatous nature ofwhich is doubtful, we mean the phagedssnic ulcer of the uterus.It likewise emanates irom the vaginal portion, but the ulcerativeprocess is not preceded by the deposition of a firm, pseudolayet* or infiltration ; the uterine tissue surrounding the ulceris sound, or else softened, yellow or reddish-brown* The disorgantion may gradually spread to the walls of the uterus and vagina,tiO the rectum, bladder and peritoneumiCarcinoma of the uterus is frequently mistaken at the commencetnent for menstrual disorder, leucorrhoea or chronic metritis. Thfirst symptoms usually are menstrual derangements, cessation ora more frequent return of the menses, or in the place of the menswe have irregular hemorrhages and leucorrhoea. The mistake ismade the more easily if the patient has not yet reached the critiperiod, so that these changes may be set down as results of a physiological cessation of the catamenial secretion. If the patientpassed through the critical period, a sudden flow of blood takesj^ace, at first resembling the menstrual flow, but soon increasinCarcinoma Uteri. 88a true hemorrhage. In the beginning the patient often complainsonly of a feeling of weight, drawing in the pelvis, a pressing towards the sexual organs, or the pains are excited by bodily motioa concussion, sexual intercourse, touch. An examination showshttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt