Report of forty-one cases of uterine polypi : with remarks / by J. Braxton Hicks.

  • Hicks, J. Braxton (John Braxton), 1823 or 1825-1897.
Date:
[between 1860 and 1869?]
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Credit: Report of forty-one cases of uterine polypi : with remarks / by J. Braxton Hicks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    UTERINE POLYPI; WITH REMARKS. By J. BRAXTON HICKS, M.D., F.R.S. INTRODUCTION. The following report embraces forty-one cases of uterine polypi, treated by me, twenty-five of them occurring in the hospital, the remainder in private practice. The cases include polypi of various kinds and of different sizes, some of them as large as could possibly occur. Some of them were smaller, but none of them were the flimsy vascular growths of small size which sometimes sprout from the os uteri. They have, however, this in common, namely, that they were all treated by the plan of immediate separation, and all removed by the annealed steel wire rope ecraseur, described by me in these Reports in 1861, and in the ‘ Obst. Trans./ London, lBf^; They also have these points in common, as regards the results, that no death occurred, and the removal was not followed by haemorrhage, nor by symptoms which gave any anxiety, excepting in two instances. The cases occurred in women over thirty-five, with two exceptions; the majority were over forty years old. The classification of the polypi is based upon their anatomi¬ cal characters. In some, the mucous membrane elements are hypertrophied, the natural relative proportions of each being