A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . ses of the entire absence of the uterus in women areexceedingly rare. The organ occasionally exists in a rudi-mentary state, having no cavity, and being of very smallsize. Malformations of the uterus are not so uncommon,though sufficiently so as to be of considerable interest. Aseptum existing in the organ/ dividing itP into two about equal parts, is perhaps themost frequent malformation. It is a condi-tion frequently not recognized, as impreg-nation may take place on one side, and thegestation and d
A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . ses of the entire absence of the uterus in women areexceedingly rare. The organ occasionally exists in a rudi-mentary state, having no cavity, and being of very smallsize. Malformations of the uterus are not so uncommon,though sufficiently so as to be of considerable interest. Aseptum existing in the organ/ dividing itP into two about equal parts, is perhaps themost frequent malformation. It is a condi-tion frequently not recognized, as impreg-nation may take place on one side, and thegestation and delivery may go on normally;menstruation may go on from the oppositeside; and this condition may account forthose anomalous cases where, menstruation Fig. No. 72.—Double uterus. continues in spite of pregnancy. Concep- tion may take place on the opposite side from which gestationis already going on. (See Fig. No. 72.) The septum represented in the cut is not always contin-uous down to the os; still, if only extending down to theinternal part of the cervical canal, it makes a double uterus.
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