A Case of Myomectomy

to the Seoni Main Hospital on 3rd January, 1925, for enlargement of the abdomen and bleeding from the vagina. The patient was married and a multipara. She had a history of excessive bleeding at each menstrual period for several years previous to the abdominal enlargement, anaemia was pronounced, and the pulse rate was 116. Intermenstrual bleeding (metrorrhagia) had been in progress for about a year. The patient first noticed a tumour about the middle of the abdomen and at the level of upper border of the pubic boneIt had increased in size for about a year till it assumed the size of a child's head. There was no disturbance in micturition and no pain or pressure symptoms were complained ofA sense of heaviness in locomotion and after taking meals was the only symptom referable to the tumour directly. Profuse bleedinggeneral emaciation and progressive weakness