We append to the above remarks on uterine cancer a brief account of the so-called - Cauliflower Excrescence Of The Os Uteri

Cauliflower Excrescence Of The Os Uteri, which we are inclined to consider as of a cancerous nature. It is of very rare occurrence, and we have only once observed it in the living subject, in a form similar to that described and delineated by Clarke. It presented the appearance of a confervoid growth, consisting of lenticular, pale red, transparent, and tolerably hard corpuscles, strung together like the beads of a rosary, projecting on the orifice of the uterus into the vagina, and bleeding on the slightest touch. It was developed and grew from an evidently cancerous base of the medullary variety.

Clarke states, that it also occurs without this complication, and that it is curable; the unfrequency of its occurrence and the circumstance that after death it collapses, and merely appears like a slight accumulation of delicate cellular tissue, render it difficult to decide the question as to its cancerous nature; this, however, is the view we are inclined to adopt.

The chief and very dangerous symptom which the affection presents are frequent exhausting hemorrhages, which are brought on by the most trivial causes. It is said to occur at any period of life after the twentieth year, but very rarely before that.