. Clinical gyncology, medical and surgical. Normal mobility of uterus (diagrammatic). DISPLACEMENTS OF THE UTERUS. 467 vanced is that some authors have not taken into account the feet that in itsphysiological condition the uterus is a movable organ subject to all thevariations of position which are dependent upon the different degrees offulness of the bladder and of the rectum and the movements of expirationand inspiration and of increased or diminished intra-abdominal other reason why authors differ or have differed in their descriptionof the normal position of the uterus is that
. Clinical gyncology, medical and surgical. Normal mobility of uterus (diagrammatic). DISPLACEMENTS OF THE UTERUS. 467 vanced is that some authors have not taken into account the feet that in itsphysiological condition the uterus is a movable organ subject to all thevariations of position which are dependent upon the different degrees offulness of the bladder and of the rectum and the movements of expirationand inspiration and of increased or diminished intra-abdominal other reason why authors differ or have differed in their descriptionof the normal position of the uterus is that they have drawn their infer-ences from the examinations of uteri which were not in the normal position,since it stands to reason that the large majority of women who submit toan examination of their sexual organs do so because they have or suspectsome disease of those organs, and therefore very frequently the uterus isfound in an abnormal position. There is really, therefore, no absolute normal position of the uterus, Fia. Uterus displaced by full bladder. since a certain degree of mobility forward, backward, downward, and toeither side is consistent with health and normal physiological the sake of convenience I have adopted and for many years taught theassumption that the uterus may be temporarily displaced forward to anangle of 40° or even 35° with the vagina, and backward to an angle of135°, without the position of the organ being considered once the uterus has become permanently deflected forward to anangle of 30° or backward to an angle of 150° to 180°, the deviation maybe said to be a positive displacement and one which probably requires treat-ment for its relief. 468 DISPLACEMENTS OP THE UTERUS. In the average normal position of the uterus, therefore, a line drawnthrough the longitudinal uterine axis should, as a rule, extend from thejunction between the second and third bone of the sacrum to a point abouttwo inches above the u
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