Gangrene of the Cervix Uteri *Rearranged by Editor.

She complained of great pain in the lower abdomen and back and had an attack of Shivering. Her temperature was 99?F., pulse 84 and respirations 18 per minute. I considered the pain was probably caused by the rough handling to which she had been subjected. I prescribed an alkaline mixture and another containing small doses of quinina and tincture of perchloride of iron. Two days later the woman was delivered of a child followed by the placenta in the normal manner. A few hours later another structure was found to have escaped from the vagina which the dai could not identify so I was called to see the patient. I examined the placenta which had been preserved and found it to be complete, and I identified the second body as the dilated cervix which was apparently gangrenous and had sloughed off. It was about the size! of a tennis ball. There was considerable haemorrhage and