The uterus, in elderly women, is very frequently affected with cancer[108]. It begins with a feeling of weight and uneasiness in the lower part of the belly, and the natural discharge of the parts is increased, so that the disease passes for fluor albus. By examination, however, we may generally discover a hardness, and sometimes an inequality, about the os uteri, and may discover the uterus to be unequally enlarged. After some time, ulceration takes place, and matter, mixed with a bloody fluid, is discharged. Occasionally, considerable hemorrhages take place, which are not unfrequently confounded with menorrhagia; but it may be distinguished by the continued discharge of a bloody sanies during the intervals of the hemorrhage; by the continual pain, and especially by our feeling the projection of the os uteri into the vagina, in some places hard, and in others soft, but rough, which shows ulceration. After some time, the glands about the vagina swell; and that canal, in many places, becomes considerably straitened. Hectic terminates the sufferings of the patient. On opening the body, we find the uterus generally though not always, considerably enlarged, with abscess and ulcers in different parts of its substance. These ulcers, as well as those of the ovarium, and, so far as I know, every gland in the internal cavities of the body, have a less tendency to fungate, than cancerous ulcer on the surface of the body. [108] It has been said, that genuine cancer is very rare in the uterus, and that the cases which pass for such are phagedenic. But although the uterus may be affected with scrophulous inflammation, and phagedenic, as well as some other specific affections, yet it must be admitted, from an examination of cases, that the uterus is very frequently attacked with true cancer. Its substance is found enlarged, hard, and containing cancerous abscesses in different parts. When inflammation attacks any organ, or part of the body, and leaves a chronic tumor, this may assume, as will afterwards be mentioned, a new inflammation, and may become affected with cancer; though it more frequently happens, that it assumes the pseudo-cancerous action. The symptoms and progress of cancer are much the same here as in the breast. When the eye becomes cancerous, it, unless the disease begins in one of the glands, such as the lachrymal, or those of Meibomius, is first of all affected with simple inflammation, which destroys the whole texture of the eye, and makes it of a different structure, rather resembling a confused mass than a well organised body. The lucid cornea becomes opake, and protrudes; the eye enlarges, is affected with a violent deep-seated pain, and at last bursts, generally on the apex: From this a fungous substance protrudes, which manifests all the symptoms of the cancerous ulcer, and in a short time arrives at a great size.