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Title: The diagnosis of diseases of women
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Findley Palmer. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Philadelphia and New York, Lea brothers & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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gh in two specimens,one removed by Dr. Reuben Peterson, the other by Dr. J. ClarenceWebster, I found an unusual number of cancer pearls. The exten-sion of the cancer cells along the lymphatics gives the appearanceof veins of marble. Four, cases have been recently reported byPeterson (American Journal of Obstetrics, June, 1903), who reviewsthe literature. Cancer of the glands of Bartholin is rare. Thegland may assume the size of a mans fist, become hard and nodular,with a movable, normal appearing overlying skin. The diagnosiswithout the aid of the microscope may be impossible. The lesionsto be considered in making a diagnosis are the benign new-forma-tions (lipoma, fibroma), with ulcerated surface, ulcus rodens, tuber-culosis, syphilis, and elephantiasis. In making the diagnosis werely upon the -age of the individual, the general effect upon thesystem, early and superficial ulceration, involvement of the inguinalglands, and above all upon the microscopic examination of an PLATE XXXVI.
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Cancer of the Vulva. Irregular coliamns of epithelixam project from the surface into the coti-neetive tissiae. Isolated cancer nests and. pearls are distributed through theconnective tissue. There is a round-cell infiltration throughout the hyalinedegeneration of the pearls. DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASES OF THE VULVA 261 excised piece of the tumor. The prognosis is relatively good.Schwarz saw ten recoveries in twenty-three cases. SARCOMA OF THE VULVA. This is a very rare lesion. Hunter Robb has described a myxo-sarcoma of the clitoris. Melanotic sarcoma of the vulva is anintensely malignant growth. Bailley reported a melanosarcoma ina woman, aged seventy-two years. Recurrence is almost certain. Miiller removed from the labiumminora a melanosarcoma as large as a walnut. There was no recur-rence until the end of three years. Fisher reports a recovery in awoman, aged fifty-six years, from whom a melanosarcoma the sizeof a walnut was removed from the labium major. CYSTS OF THE VULVA. Cysts of the

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