Two Cases of Large Uterine Polypus

per minute, and suffering from occasional fits of dyspnoea. Nine months ago the patient began to suffer from excessive and painful menstruation, with profuse leucorrhcea, the function up to that time having been regularly performed. Since the 8th July she had had almost constant haemorrhage, accompanied with bearing-down pains. The flooding at times being so excessive as to cause syncope. On examination I found a laro-e pedunculated growth occupying the vagina. The pedicle passing up the cervical canal. The patient being very low, I determined to operate at once, and on the following morning having administered chloroform, I passed the loop of a wire Ecraseur round the pedicle at its junction with the tumour and worked the instrument gently. A fibroid polypus, the size of a cricket ball,