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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ...the uterus. In one of the above four, pregnancy was preceded by the replacement of the organ; but in the other two, not only was the womb misplaced at the time of conception, but was ascertained to continue so after delivery. Four having previously given birth to living children, miried after the development of symptoms of uterine misplacement; and in one of the number, miriage had twice occurred, while fourteen, having previously given birth to one or more living children, had passed more than a year since the commencement of the symptoms without conceiving. In three of this number, however, though still within the child-bearing age, conception had not taken place for two years in one instance, and for four years in the other two, previous to the commencement of the symptoms of misplacement of the womb. The above detail of symptoms shows, I think, that while versions and flexions of the womb by no means invariably produce either considerable local suffering or considerable functional disturbance, their presence or absence is yet far from being a matter of indifference, and we must admit them as constituting a distinct class of by no means unimportant ailments of the womb. But even though they were themselves of but little moment, it would nevertheless be very necessary that we should THEIR DIAGNOSIS. 217 learn to distinguish them from other and more serious uterine ailments with which some of them are, on a superficial examination, very likely to be confounded. With ordinary care, indeed, any misplacement of the whole uterus, assuming as it almost always does the form of retroversion, can cely be overlooked or mistaken, for the fundus uteri thrown backwards, and often downwards, into the hollow of the sacrum, and the mouth of the womb directed ...