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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...body they collapse, owing to their vesicular character; and it has been found impossible to inject them. Although this disease may often be merely a local difficulty, curable by its removal, yet, it is considered a modification of encephaloid cancer, having numerous capillary loops accompanying it, and, therefore, incurable. Causes. The causes of this malady are not understood. Discrimination. Epithelial cancer may be determined from the fungous surface of cancer by the softness and mobility of the tumor, its attachment to the lip of the os uteri, and the. want of fetor in the discharges. In the first, anemia is produced; in the latter, irritative fever. From polypus or a fibrous tumor, by the absence of a pedicle, its softness and granulated surface, and the watery discharge; in either polypus or fibrous tumor the growth is harder, mostly smooth, and doea not bleed when handled. During pregnancy epithelial cancer may be mistaken for the margin of the placenta, and the diagnosis might prove difficult, unless ocular inspection would expose the true character of the affection. Treatment. In addition to the general measures hereafter advised under the treatment of the succeeding forms of cancer, local measures may be employed, if not with the hope of cure, at least with a desire to check the progress of the disease as much as possible, and thereby lengthen the days of the patient. To check the hemorrhage, the tissue of the excrescence may be broken down with the finger, and Perchloride of Iron, or the Tincture of Chloride of Iron, be injected; and either of these preparations may be given internally to combat the anemic habit produced by the excessive loss of blood, as well as to produce an astringent influence. The growth may be destroyed...