A CASE OF CHRONIC INVERSION OF THE UTERUS: SPONTANEOUS REDUCTION AFTER THREE YEARS.

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In bringing to your attention to-day the subject of inversion of the uterus, it is done partly because our program has never before borne such a one, and partly because it is practical; this latter because anyone attending a lying-in woman may meet with such a complication, not often, it is true, possibly not once in a lifetime, or in several lifetimes, for when we consult such records as that of the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin we find only one case in 190,000 deliveries, and in St. Petersburg no case occurred in 200,000 births. Few obstetricians have seen a case, but the subject is practical, for the unexpected does too often happen. It does not follow that because large hospitals where skilled aid is at hand, present so few cases of inverted uteri, they are so very infrequent, when we turn our attention to the methods of accouchment as followed

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