. The diagnosis, pathology and treatment of diseases of women including the diagnosis of pregnancy. a one inch long, tbe uterus represented by mus-cular fibres arranged in the form of tbe uterus, the Fallopian tubesmore decidedly pronounced and presenting each a small cavity,the ovaries present. (See Fig. 56.) The particular part of tbe uterus formed maybe limited chieflyto the cervix, to the upper part, or to one side. Absence of rudimentary formation of tbe uterus may be asso- * See KussmauTs valuable work, Von dern Mangel, der Verkiimraerung undVerdopplung der Gebarmutter, Wiirzburg, 1859,
. The diagnosis, pathology and treatment of diseases of women including the diagnosis of pregnancy. a one inch long, tbe uterus represented by mus-cular fibres arranged in the form of tbe uterus, the Fallopian tubesmore decidedly pronounced and presenting each a small cavity,the ovaries present. (See Fig. 56.) The particular part of tbe uterus formed maybe limited chieflyto the cervix, to the upper part, or to one side. Absence of rudimentary formation of tbe uterus may be asso- * See KussmauTs valuable work, Von dern Mangel, der Verkiimraerung undVerdopplung der Gebarmutter, Wiirzburg, 1859, p. 20. 474 PATHOLOGY AND TREATMENT. ciated with complete absence of the vagina, or with rudimentaryformation of this can ah With respect to the condition of the va-gina in such cases, the following is an illustrative fact: I had oc-casion a few years since to examine a lady set. 20, presenting thefollowing conditions: pudendum covered with hair, labia majorawell developed, vagina represented by a mere little pit admittingthe uterine sound only half an inch, no uterus or hard body to be Fig. discovered between the bladder and rectum high up. Signs ofovarian activity had been observed on two or three occasions, giv-ing reasons for the belief that the ovaries were present. Thebreasts were well developed. INFANTILE UTERUS. Under this term are included those cases in which the uterus isregularly formed and, so far, complete in its parts, but where itretains during adult age the size the uterus ordinarily possessesduring early childhood, or prior to the advent of puberty. At theage when the arrival of puberty is generally witnessed, the growthof the uterus proceeds rapidly, the dimensions which it then ac-quires being those which, with certain exceptions, it retains untilthe end of what may be termed sexual life. But in a few instances,when the age of puberty arrives, the uterus fails to undergo theproper development, and retains its childlike size far beyond thecustomary period
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