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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    / [ *3 ] It has been before obferved that all thofe who have been afflicted by this diforder, at lead all whom I have feen, were of relaxed habits of body* : and that, when ad- vanced in their third month of pregnancy, they have ex- perienced a difficulty in making water ; to which at fird they paid little or no attention, fuppofmg it to have been either natural in their then condition, or occalioned by not having obeyed the calls of nature ; thus contenting themfelves, until the increafing difficulty, terminating in a fuppreffion of urine, obliges them to fend for af- fl dance. I believe it will be allowed me, that in all fuch ha- bits, every part of the body is equally fubjedt in a certain degree to the conferences of relaxation ; which granted, it feems not unreafonable to imagine that the ligaments of the uterus, fo circumdanced, mud be in a more flaccid * I have an obfervation to add, that feems to confirm this idea of the diforder being peculiar to relaxed habits • namely, that feveral of the patients whom I have attended and cured of this complaint, in fomc time after haye died of drop- fies. E date