ZINC CHLORID IN UTERINE HEMORRHAGE

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Among the therapeutic agents which have been used successfully to combat uterine bleeding caused by myomas and chronic metro-endometritis, or, as this is frequently called, fibrosis uteri, the most prominent are roentgenotherapy and radium. In cases of profuse bleeding, however, a surgical intervention is frequently resorted to and the uterus extirpated. While I advocate surgical intervention in the greater number of fibromyomas, I do not approve of so radical a measure if the uterus is not the seat of neoplasm. Then, too, there are patients who will not submit to a surgical operation. And it is from such patients that I have acquired my experience. At the New Orleans meeting of this society in 1907 I spoke of the good results obtained in instances of endometritis with menorrhagia from the intra-uterine use of phenol (carbolic acid), and in some instances, when the bleeding was very profuse and the phenol was

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