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to water 50 parts. This may be repeated daily. When there is no 
spontaneous opening it is injudicious to interfere, as the danger from 
the retention of the fetus is less than that from septic fermentation 
in the enormous fetal sac when that has been opened to the air. 
MOLES, OR ANIDIAN MONSTERS. 
.These are evidently products of conception, in which the impreg- 
nated ovum has failed to develop naturally, and presents only a cha- 
otic mass of skin, hair, bones, muscles, etc., attached to the inner 
surface of the womb by an umbilical cord, which is itself often shriv- 
eled and wasted. They are usually accompanied with a well-devel- 
oped fetus, so that the mole may be looked upon as a twin which has 
undergone arrest and vitiation of development. They are expelled 
by the ordinary process of parturition, and usually at the same time 
with the normally developed offspring. 
CYSTIC DISEASE OF THE WALLS OF THE WOMB, OR VESICULAR MOLE, 
This condition appears to be attributable to hypertrophy (enlarge- 
ment) of the villi on the inner surface of the womb, which become 
greatly increased in number and hollowed out internally into a series 
of cysts, or pouches, containing liquid. Unlike the true mole, there- 
fore, they appear to be disease of the maternal structure of the womb 
rather than of the product of conception. Rodet, in a case of this 
kind, which had produced active labor pains, quieted the disorder 
with anodynes and effected a recovery. When this can not be done, 
attempts may be made to remove the mass with the écraseur or other- 
wise, following it up with antiseptic injections, as advised under the 
last heading. 
DROPSY OF THE WOMB. 
This appears as a result of some disease of the walls of the womb, 
but has been frequently observed as the result of infection after sex- 
ual congress, and has, therefore, been confounded with pregnancy. 
The symptoms are those of pregnancy, but without any movements of 
the fetus and without the detection of any solid body in the womb 
when examined with the oiled hand in the rectum. At the end of 
four or eight months there are signs of parturition or of frequent 
straining to pass urine, and after a time the liquid is discharged clear 
and watery, or muddy, thick, and fetid. The hand introduced into 
the womb can detect neither fetus nor fetal membrane. If the neck 
of the womb closes, the liquid may accumulate a second time, or even 
a third, if no means are taken to disinfect it or to correct the tend- 
ency. The best resort is to remove any diseased product that may be 
found attached to the walls of the womb and to inject it daily with a 
warm solution of carbolic acid 2 drams, chlorid.of zinc one-half 
