. An American text-book of obstetrics. For practitioners and students. DIAGNOSIS OF PREGNANCY. 165 resisting during uterine contraction, boggy or soft duriug relaxation. The ac-companying illustrations (Figs. 138-140) best elucidate these facts. The uterusin shape has been likened to that of a demijohn, to an old-fashioned fat-belliedjug, or to a sphere (corpus) resting upon a cylinder (cervix). These alter-ations in consistency, while noticed on the posterior wall by rectal touch, arebest detected along the anterior uterine wall, by the finger in the vagina with

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