Identifier: systemofmedicine002arnd (find matches)
Title: A system of medicine, based upon the law of homoeopathy
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Arndt, Hugo Emil Rudolph, 1848-
Subjects: Homeopathy
Publisher: Philadelphia, Hahnemann
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

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Longitudinal section of vagina, natural size.V. Vagina; U. Uterus; P. Perineum ; v. vulva ;u. urethra. DISEASES OF THE OKNITAL ORGANS. 405 a vertical direction to about two inches; anterior or posterior, an inchand a half; lateral, one inch. The uterus is fixed in position mainly by attachments al it- middlepart, and when acted upon by any force executes a compound move-ment. Thus, in the act of straining the uterus is not only forceddownward, but also rotates (from the point of attachment) forward,and, being a flexible body, it bends; that is, the downward pressureproduces prolapsus, version, and flexion. Here, then, we have thebasis of uterine pathology, so far as dislocations and distortions areconcerned, conditions which are really only exaggerations of what Fia. 2.
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Diagrammatic representation of normal movements of the uterus caused by the fill-ing of the bladder. The lower position shows the uterus with the bladder empty.As the posterior wall of the bladder is pushed upward and backward by the containedurine, the uterine fundus rises and the cervix sinks. happens every day in a normal uterus and from which recovery is hadinstantly so soon as the force ceases to act. The question of the true uterine position has been greatly befoggedby the fact that the earlier impressions were derived from the study of 406 A SYSTEM OF MEDICINE. the cadaver; and whether these investigations be by ordinary dis-section or by the examination of frozen or of spirit-hardened sections,the results are of little value, as. there is an undefined post-mortemchange in the uterine position not yet understood. It is to the livingwoman, therefore, that we must look for a solution of the question:what is the normal position of the uterus? Here again we are metwith an obstacle,

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