A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . down which had existed for severalyears. She was exceedingly nervous; Ihad great difficulty in completing a thor-ough examination, and was not a little puz-zled to make out a diagnosis. To the left of the vagina wasfelt an accumulation of fluid extending as high as the fingercould reach, and from the rectum anelastic and nearly globular body couldbe felt, closely attached to the satisfying myself as to the posi-tion of the fluid and its connection withthe uterus, I unfortunately suggeste
A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . down which had existed for severalyears. She was exceedingly nervous; Ihad great difficulty in completing a thor-ough examination, and was not a little puz-zled to make out a diagnosis. To the left of the vagina wasfelt an accumulation of fluid extending as high as the fingercould reach, and from the rectum anelastic and nearly globular body couldbe felt, closely attached to the satisfying myself as to the posi-tion of the fluid and its connection withthe uterus, I unfortunately suggested tointroduce an exploring trocar, to ascer-tain the character of the seemed I had already lost my pa-tients confidence, from the length oftime I had taken to form an opinion asto Avhat her difficulty was, so that my 48. m Doublk Uteri-s and Vagixa, proposition was refused!, on the ground one vagina she would not be experimented with any longer. I neversaw the case again, and know nothing of her subsequent * Emmets Prin. and Prac. of Gynaecology, page 504 EATON ON DISEASES OF WOMEN. history. Dr. Emmet claims this as a case of double uterusand vagina; but the symptoms he relates might be producedby hsematocele; hence the cut and diagnosis both draw uponthe imagination. The doctor might have beenright in his diagnosis; he had noopportunity to confirm it. He relates, on page 209, a casewhich he saw with Dr. Watts, in Roosevelt Hospital, wherethere existed a sinus which passed up by the side of thevagina, and communicated with the uterus. There was butone uterus, and these two outlets were converted into one bydividing a thin septum. The doctor assumes a, similarity in thiscase to the one first related; and, therefore, claims the firstas a case of double uterus and vagina, mainly because themenstrual flow was irregular, occurring not less than eightweeks apart, hence concluding that the menstruation occurredone month into one side of the doubl
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