Clinical memoirs on the diseases of women . scence, with pelvic and hypogastric pjains ; leucorrhcea ; antever-aion; retroversion in the recumbent posture; improvement fromthe use of a sponge P., aged 21, was admitted into Hotel Dieu, September 9th, 1859. She began to menstruate at 14, was married at 19, and was * Gaillard (de Po\\.\ev&)BuUet>ns de lAcademif de medecine, 30 Avril, Aran, loc. cit., p. 1018. AA I AVERSION. 181 delivered naturnlly of her first child about a year after, and from thattime she has seldom been free from lumbar and pelvic j)aiiis of abeariug-down
Clinical memoirs on the diseases of women . scence, with pelvic and hypogastric pjains ; leucorrhcea ; antever-aion; retroversion in the recumbent posture; improvement fromthe use of a sponge P., aged 21, was admitted into Hotel Dieu, September 9th, 1859. She began to menstruate at 14, was married at 19, and was * Gaillard (de Po\\.\ev&)BuUet>ns de lAcademif de medecine, 30 Avril, Aran, loc. cit., p. 1018. AA I AVERSION. 181 delivered naturnlly of her first child about a year after, and from thattime she has seldom been free from lumbar and pelvic j)aiiis of abeariug-down character. Menstruation lins since been much freer,and there has been a good deal of leucorrhoea in the intervals. Onexamination, the cervix was directed forwards and upwards towardsthe pubis, about two inches from the vaginal orifice; the anteriorcul-de-sac was deep and free ; the posterior deep, about 82 milli-metres from the orifice, and contained the retroverted fundus. Theuterus was moveable, and could be easily replaced. Fig. Recumbent postme. The figures refer to the distance in millimetres of the parts in question from the vaginal orifice. Fig. 16 represents roughly the position and direction of the 182 ON UTERINE DEVIATIONS. uterus in the two postures, st;ii:ling and I}iiig—the tignres referto the distance from the vaginal orifice, measured in millimetres.*There were no evidences of any , or congestion. Shewas ordered a generally tonic phm of treatment, under which sheimproved ; and, so long as she remained recumbent, there was littleto complain of; but as soon as she resumed the upri^lit position, thebearing-down pain came on. A sponge was placed in the posterior cul-de-snc, and this gave hergreat relief, so that she could walk about with comparatively littlediscomfort; and she left the Hospital on the 2Sth of September. In sixteen patients who had had one or more children, anteversion,with pelvi-peritouitis, or inflammation of the broad hgaments,
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