Excerpt from The British and Foreign Medical Review, Vol. 18: Or Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery; July-October 1844 M. Lisfranc has on several occasions removed by enucleation both polypi and fibrous tumours which were not pedunculated, whether situ ated completely within the cavity Of the uterus, or having partly (or, in the case Of polypi entirely) made their way into the vagina. To use his own words, he dwells on this important point Of practice which he be lieves to be new. (p. We need not occupy space in showing that the practice is not new, but as we believe M. Lisfranc has adopted it with more boldness than his predecessors, and under circumstances in which it was not previously applied, we shall give a summary Of a few Of the cases by which he illustrates this practice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.