Notes of a Case of Uterine Polypus Terminating in Fatal Sphacelation

External View. The expresssion of the face was nearly the same as it had been before death, on the preceding night. The cheeks had a puffy appearance, and their cellular membrane, like that of every other part of the body, evidently contained an unusual quantity of serous fluid. The parietes of the hypogastric and umbilical regions were elevated by a tumour, clearly consisting, from its figure, of the distended bladder. A large, rounded, bloody mass, in a state of sphacelation, and tightly embraced above by the vagina, protruded externally from between the labia pudendi. The latter were, in several places, ulcerated from its pressure. Abdomen. Much fat was accumulated in the cellular