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Excerpt from An Essay, Literary and Practical, on Inversio Uteri, Vol. 1
It is necessary to distinguish inversion from descent19 of the uterus, although every preceding writer has confounded the two together, more or less. Descent refers to change of position downwards of the whole organ; prolapse is applied to the uterus, when it descends so low as to pass beyond the labia externa, inverted or not inverted. Pregnancy, the only natural source of enlargement of the uterus, is by far the most frequent of all causes disposing to inversion; and the description given in this section will have reference exclusively to that cause, unless it be otherwise Specified. Inversion of the uterus is either partial or total; the latter can exist only in one degree, and admits of no sub-divisions. Partial inversion, on the contrary, comprises very many degrees; and there are both physiological and practical reasons for noticing and describing three, by way of classification, namely, depression, introversion, and perversion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
