On Polypus Uteri

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MR. N1"g ON POLYPUS UTERI. as through it. The child was born alive; the mother, died six weeks after. " On returning home from attending a case of labor, Dr. Merrimgan was infQrmed by his uncle, the late Dr. S. Merriman, that the patient had a scirrhus of the os uteri-that he thought she would never have anLother child, and would die from the disease, That, he said, was the result of his experience in other cases. She conceived again, however, and died soon after delivery. The child was born alive, and neither in this nor in the last case was any operation performed." The following letter contains the third case:-" My dear Dr. Lee,-The following case, which I did not recollect last night, will interest you; I do not remember any one very similar:-" Aug. 12, 1824. I was desired by my excellent friend, Mr. Clifton, of Leicester-place, to visit Ms. George, whose husband kept the Coach and Horses public-house in Compton-street, Soho. She told me that she had been long ill, and had consulted Dr. Bree, who thought her disease was ulcer of the womb, and treated her accordingly. She said, however, she was quite sure of being pregnant, and not liking to continue a mode of treatment which she imagined must be improper, had ceased to consult him. On making inquiry into her symptoms, it appeared that Dr, Bree was justified in taking the view he did of her complaint; they were extreme pain in the back, constipation, emaciation, and especially extremely offensive discharges from the vagina. These symp. toms had occurred after a lyingin two years before, and had continued ever since; indeed, there was some reason to believe that they had shown thempselves before the termination of that pregnancy. Upon this point, however, the evidence was not quite satisfactory. " Having learnt thus much, I inquiredwhatwere her reasons for thinking herself pregnant; her reply was,