An essay on the retroversion of the uterus : illustrated with cases and observations / by William Cockell.

  • Cockell, William
Date:
1785
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Credit: An essay on the retroversion of the uterus : illustrated with cases and observations / by William Cockell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ * ] l ’■ ■ / ; Dr. Hunter, in his remarks on the retroverted uterus, aflerts, that the very exiftence of fuch a cafe has been controverted. But, having myfelf met with ' , , ■, > j a confidcrable number, in the courfe of thirty years pra&ice, I am induced to believe, that this dreadful malady occurs more frequently than the faculty in ge- ¥ ■**“ ■ J* ... f neral fuppofes. Nor do I apprehend that many of our \ practitioners, in the remote parts of the country at leall, iufpect it to happen till it is too late to adminifter relief; for the diforder, if long neglected, will moft probably terminate fatally, as too clearly appears by the fecond cafe hereafter to be related ; and the event will be the fame if it Ihould chance to be miftaken. Here I muft obferve, that when I was a ftudent under the late cele¬ brated anatomift abovementined, in the year one thou- fand feven hundred and fifty-four, a cafe of this fort occurred to him ; and the Doctor, in a lecture extra- i ordinary, which he gave to the faculty, with the parts before him, treated it as a new cafe/4 without affigning any fatisfadtory caufe, or pointing out any competent This cafe has been communicated to the public. «* -X VJp
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