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Identifier: diseasesofwomenc00herm (find matches)
Title: Diseases of women. A clinical guide to their diagnosis and treatment
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Herman, G. Ernest (George Ernest), 1849-1914
Subjects: Women
Publisher: New York, W. Wood & Co.
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
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-, byreason of their size andweight. The only treat-ment is removal. Fibromata. — Fibroid enlargements occur in the labia. They grow slowly, and are painless. They Fig. lo-k. —Fibrous polypus or Moiiuscum may become polypoid, as in Fig. 154. Those thatI have seen were soft, andloose in texture, not hard and nodular, like uterine fibroids.They only cause symptoms mechanically, by their size andweight. The treatment is their removal with the knife.Arrest haemorrhage by compression ot bleeding points withsutures. Elephantiasis.—This disease does not occur in England. * Principles and Practice of Gynaecology, 1878, p. 59-i. f Quoted by Hildebrandt in Billroth und Lucke, Deutsche Chirurgie.
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fibrosum of labium. (After Burgess,from a jxitient of the authors.) SWELLINGS OF THE VULVA. 509 It is seen only in tropical countries, or in people who havebeen in the tropics. It is believed, with good reason, todepend on blocking of the lymphatic vessels by the filariasanguinis hominis* a parasite only found in the tropics.Owing to this blocking the lymph cannot return, swells theaffected parts, and develops into fibrous tissue. It is seenduring the ages of sexual activity, being rare in old womenand in children, and is of slow development, extendingover years. Cases of congenital and infantile enlargementof the sexual organs have been described under this name,but they were probably not of this nature. It affects mostoften the labia majora, then the clitoris, and least often thelabia minora; often all these parts are affected together.The affected parts sometimes form a very large tumour,weighing twenty pounds or more, and reaching to thepatients knees. Its surface is irregular, wa

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