Let me here point out a common error. A physician has a patient who has symptoms which he does not exactly understand, and he finally concludes to make a speculum examination ; finding the cervix in the condition which we have been considering, and which he has always looked upon as ulcération, he fails to look further, thinking that he sees enough to account for all the suffering, when that which he has found may of itself be of no importance whatever. In this way I have known the worst

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... ons of the uterus, the rectum, and the bladder overlooked. We all know of cases in which symptoms arising from disease of the most distant parts of the body have been foolishly referred to the same cause.