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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopathy"Page 78 of 653the vaginal portion harder than in the normal condition, of unequresistance, swollen, misshapen, rugged and knotty, sensitive to pure and readily bleeding; the lips of the os tincee look pufty annotched, the os is patulous. In the course of the disease pains sin, which are at first vague and occur only now and then, but aftwards become more severe and finally, especially at night, exceedingly violent, pressing, stinging, lancinating, burning, not confto the region of the uterus, but spreading to the small of the baand thighs. Characteristic are the more or less violent burning astinging-boring pains over the pubic bones and in the small of thback, along the hips and thighs, interfering with walking and evesitting; very often a burning pain is continually felt deep in thvis, accompanied by fugitive stitches darting through the uterus.The neighboring lymphatic glands are generally infiltrated andpainful. At the beginning of the trouble a serous or slimy secretion flows from the vagina, having but little smell ; more usuallthe discharge is copious, of a brownish-red, suspicioushavinga horrid smell and excoriating the skin. The bleeding becomes more and more frequent and copious, the blood being mixedwith detached portions of tissue. These hemorrhages consume thestrength of the patient in a very short time. At this stage of thdisease the ichorous dissolution of the carcinoma progresses veryrapidly. An examination reveals the funnel-shaped ulcer and thesoft, readily-bleeding excrescences ; the vagina likewise is oftemuch narrowed by the cancerous infiltration. The patients showthe imprint of the carcinomatous cachexia, together with the symptoms of a high grade of ansemia. The disease generally lasts foryears, calculating from the first manifestation of distinct synipand without allowing for the influence of special circumstances,as confinement, which is one of the most pernicious occurrences tcan happen to a woman afflicted with cancer of the womb. It is inconceivable how it is possible for the organism to bear up for soa time under a destructive malady like cancer, without perishing.Cauliflower-excrescences seldom beget symptoms different fromthose of carcinoma, and the pains are equally intense. On the othhand, however, life is less rapidly destroyed by the former, becathey are not so speedily converted into ichor, and the destructio84 Diseases of the Female Sexual Organs.of tissne does not spread so far. Hemorrhages take place more reaily from cauliflower-excrescences than from carcinoma.Treatment. No more than we reject the possibility of a cureof carcinoma generally, do we believe that carcinoma of the uteruis an incurable disease, although it is difficult to obtain certathis respect. A cure is only possible as long as the carcinoma hanot spread too far, and has not yet become converted into ichor.such a case the diagnosis is still uncertain, for sensitiveness auneven swelling of the os tine® do not constitute carcinoma; evenfetid discharge from the vagina does not settle the diagnosis. Inthe stage of dissolution every attempt at a radical cure is unsucful, and all we can do is to mitigate the patient's distress.A number of remedies have been indicated for carcinoma of theuterus, that have only a partial affinity to this disease, and arfor the most part, suitable only for the various accessory affecthttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt