. The diagnosis, pathology and treatment of diseases of women including the diagnosis of pregnancy. in retroflexion. Abortions are very comrfion in casesof retroflexion, the uterus expelling the ovum at a very early * Fig. 72 represents a fibroid tumor growing from the back of the walls of the bladder are here made too thick. FLEXIONS AND VERSIONS OF THE UTERUS. 515 period. When the ovum is retained, the fundus is now and thennaturally elevated into proper position as pregnancy advances,but more frequently artificial help is needed. Many cases ofpregnancy with retroversion of the ut
. The diagnosis, pathology and treatment of diseases of women including the diagnosis of pregnancy. in retroflexion. Abortions are very comrfion in casesof retroflexion, the uterus expelling the ovum at a very early * Fig. 72 represents a fibroid tumor growing from the back of the walls of the bladder are here made too thick. FLEXIONS AND VERSIONS OF THE UTERUS. 515 period. When the ovum is retained, the fundus is now and thennaturally elevated into proper position as pregnancy advances,but more frequently artificial help is needed. Many cases ofpregnancy with retroversion of the uterus are doubtless, as Dr,Tyler Smith has shown,* originally cases of flexion ; the flexionin other cases occurs suddenly. Sterility is often a result of flex-ion of the uterus, owing to its interfering Avith impregnation abso-lutely, or by leading to the occurrence of abortion at a very earlyperiod. Labordike pains frequently attend the ordinary periods;these are due to the attempt on the part of the uterus to expel itsaccumulated contents of blood or clots. Leucorrhoea, general, al- FiG 73 t. most constant, uneasiness about the uterine region, these are alsoevils associated veiy generally with flexions of the uterus. Thegeneral condition of the patient may be one giving extreme anx-iety when the disease has existed long undetected, for owing tothe loss of power of locomotion, the health is often found to havesuffered considerably, and a morbid, hysterical hyper-sensitive con- * Obstetrical Transactions, vol. ii, p. 286. t Fig. 73 represents the case of a lady subject for several years to prolapsusassociated with retroflexion of the uterus. 516 PATHOLOGY AND TREATMENT. dition has to be dealt with ; the digestion is impaired, and none ofthe bodily functions are performed healthily and well (see p. 368). There has been some dispute as to the cause of the pain, &c., incases of flexion. It has been contended that it is due to neuralgia,to inflammation of the uterus—to anything,
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