. Woman, her diseases and remedies : a series of letters to his class. vis. The other dotted line, marked (a), shows howlong, and where, the un-stretched round ligamentought to be, and was, beforethe retroversion took you push the index intothe vagina, you will press iton the fundus and corpusuteri, down near to the sac-rum, while the os is high upnear the pubis. I think thedrawing may explain thestate of the case better thanall the balance of this looking through thebooks again to find what thewriters think on this subject,which, as you may remember,I have often presented in
. Woman, her diseases and remedies : a series of letters to his class. vis. The other dotted line, marked (a), shows howlong, and where, the un-stretched round ligamentought to be, and was, beforethe retroversion took you push the index intothe vagina, you will press iton the fundus and corpusuteri, down near to the sac-rum, while the os is high upnear the pubis. I think thedrawing may explain thestate of the case better thanall the balance of this looking through thebooks again to find what thewriters think on this subject,which, as you may remember,I have often presented inthis light at our meetings inthe lecture-room, I discoverthem not to be so clear and concise in their apprehension of the truenature of the case as I think you will be, if you adopt the opinions aboveexpressed and set forth. They all know that retroversion is retrover-sion ; but they seem not to know why. The famous Dr. Deleurye, inhis Traite des Accouchemens, Tar. 127, says of the round ligaments,Hors le temps de la grossesse, les ligamens ne sonl daucun usage a la. RETROVERSIO UTERI. 211 matrice; pendant la grossesse, ils peuvent lui servir, e*tant tendus etdroits. So that Mons. Deleurye appears to regard them as provisionsagainst a gestative want. Most of the authors, I believe, equally over-look the ligaments, as allowing by their failure the accident of a retro-version, except Velpeau, who, at p. 94, 2d edition, Paris, 1835, says: But for them the womb would every moment be turned over backwardsby the bladder, which is distended several times every day, with have escaped the attention of Robert Lee, whom nothing passes them by with scarcely a remark ; nor does Churchillseem to deem them worthy of notice. Even MM. Desormeaux andPaul Dubois, authors of the article in the Nouveau Diet, de Medecine,pass over these organs without due regard; while Dr. Jacquemiers newManual of Midwifery, which is the last novelty in our line, seems alsoto attribute thi
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