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necessarily produced will depend in great measure, however, upon the skill and caution displayed in the treatment, whatever means may be employed in destroying the vascular growth. The attempt to remove this form of nævus by compression has always failed, in my experience; and as for ethylate of sodium,

Fig. 35.—Nævus of vulva.

although it has proved successful, it has been quite as painful and less effective than nitric acid.

In the treatment of the cavernous nævus the knife, ligature, galvano-cautery, and injections of carbolic acid and of iodine have been recommended, and the most suitable method of treatment must depend upon the nature of the case.