The journal of the Gynaecological Society of Boston - a monthly journal devoted to the advancement of the knowledge of the diseases of women (1871) (14592065707)

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Title: The journal of the Gynaecological Society of Boston : a monthly journal devoted to the advancement of the knowledge of the diseases of women

Year: 1871 (1870s)

Authors: Gynaecological Society of Boston

Subjects: Gynecology Gynecology

Publisher: Boston, Mass. : James Campbell

Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

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the consideration of gynae-cologists as might at first be supposed. As illustrativeof this fact, he exhibited a photograph of an ENORMOUS TUMOR OF THE LABIUM, which he hoped soon to present to the Society, the pa-tient having lately come to him from a distance, foroperation. The tumor was solid, and apparently fi-brous; it was very vascular, weighed several pounds,reached nearly to the knees, as represented on the op-posite page, and was supported by a large suspensorybandage attached to the waist. Dr. Martin had called attention to the ventilatingbandages, more particularly with reference to their ap-plication in a case now under his care, it being one of GREAT HYPERTROPHY OF BOTH MAMMAE. The condition was identical with that so well de-scribed by Yelpeau, the breasts being perfectly sym- 272 Proceedings of the Society. (May, metrical, and so far, aside from their disproportionatemagnitude, models of beauty. Each of them was aslarge as his head, and they occasioned the patient great

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inconvenience from their weight. She was now sixmonths pregnant. The mammary enlargement had beeneven and regular, dating from the removal of a uterinepolypus, the size of a Bartlett pear, some three yearssince. He was having a double sling made of the per-forated rubber, to be buckled over the back. Iodide ofpotassium had suggested itself as likely to be of advan-tage in producing absorption; but, upon trial, the de-sired effect had not been obtained. Pressure, therefore,seemed the only remaining measure, short of extirpation. 1871.) Proceedings of the Society. 273 Dr. Seaverns exhibited a specimen, illustrating THE SIMULATION OF UTERINE POLYPUS BY A RETAINED PLACENTA. His patient was an unmarried girl, seventeen yearsof age, who had barely left school. He first saw herearly last month. Her menstrual periods were reportedto have always been regular, and the flow without pain,but excessive. It was said that the catamenia had beenpresent at the proper time the week before. She wasthen

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