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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
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rition) may be found in both single and married women. Previouspregnancy predisposes to distortion when the uterus, or its attach-ments, fail to properly involute, or when the organ is left soft or con-gested. Repeated pregnancies at short intervals in women who arebadly nourished or over-worked is very likely to induce distortion.The uterus has not time to recover its tone from one pregnancy toanother, and acted upon by some outer force, it becomes flexed. Gen-eral prostration, as after fever or other exhausting illness, is a verypowerful predisposing cause, unless great care is taken to prevent over-exertion. The exciting causes of distortion of the uterus are accidents, falls,strains, excessive exercise, use of the sewing-machine, nursing invalids, 436 A SYSTEM OF MEDICINE. and occupations requiring much standing. Women are apt to forgetthat they cannot do safely during menstruation what they might do atother times; and from this lack of caution arise many cases offlexion. Fig. 12.
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Fig. 12 shows three degress of anteflexion with the accompaning rotation, and therelation of the fundus to the bladder and urethra, and of the cervix to the vagina andrectum. Fig. 13 displays the same relationships when the uterus has a backwardflexion, except that now the fundus crowds upon the rectum and the cervix upon theurethra and bladder. (After Hewitt.) The angle of distortion is most commonly situated at the internalos uteri. In general, the upper half of the cervix and the lower halfof the fundus are involved in the bend. The flexion may be forward,backward, or to either side, and may be associated with prolapsus orany form of version; rarely is the uterus distorted without also beingdislocated as a whole. There are various pathological conditions consecutive to flexion.In the first place, there is a swelling of the tissues on the concave sideof the bend. This ridge or elevation is frequently so prominent as to DIKKASKS OF Till-; (JKNITAI. OIMiANS. 437 be felt by the finger

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