On the Value of rectal exploration as an Aid to Diagnosis in Diseases of children. Tuberculosis of the Uterus or Adnexa

Tuberculosis of the uterus, Fallopian tubes, and ovaries very rare in children, so rare that D-r. S. remembers all these cases both clinical and postmortem. There are also very few of these drugs in museums. In Guy's Hospital, there are only 2 of them: one is the Fallopian tube, stretched by cheese-like masses, the other is the brain and lungs. Choffey reported one case of uterine tuberculosis in a 4-year-old girl who died of general tuberculosis; Silcock in a 5-year-old girl, both in 1885, Dr Cheatle at an autopsy of a 21-month-old girl, found pyosalpinx communicating with a purulent pelvic cavity, where there was pus near the drachm.