On retroflexion of the unimpregnated uterus : with cases illustrative of its causes and of a new mode of treatment / by John Moir.

  • Moir, John.
Date:
1860
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Credit: On retroflexion of the unimpregnated uterus : with cases illustrative of its causes and of a new mode of treatment / by John Moir. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ence is, I think, quite fair, that this lady would have been saved many months of suffering, and might have been the mother of a family. These cases are good illustrations of the propriety and advantage of examining the state of the uterus when symptoms indicating retroflexion occur soon after delivery, as well as of the mischief and inconvenience of neglecting this simple rule. When the misplace¬ ment is thus discovered soon after its occurrence, the organ is very easily replaced; whereas, if it is not so discovered, the uterus, as is gradually regains its normal size, still retains its abnormal position ; and when only first discovered months or even years afterwards, may require a lengthened period for its cure, if it be cured at all. I have, on investigating the circumstances, found that my patients had previously borne a child or had a miscarriage in almost every case where the malposition could not be traced to the causes indi¬ cated under the first head—which of course are equally liable to occur in the married woman as in the virgin—though the two cases that I have narrated were both in the latter. My belief therefore is, that this affection is induced either by the causes indicated under the first head, or soon after a delivery or miscarriage, and 1 cannot as yet understand any other cause for it. The only instruments that I for a long time used in the treatment These Bougies are all of the actual size. No. 3. Two views of the same instru¬ ment ; a shows the thickness of the lower part of the stalk, b its breadth. of these cases were the simple intrauterine bougie No. 1, or the intra-uterine wire pessary No. 4, as recommended by Professor