Excerpt from Practical Gynaecology: With Fifteen Years Experience of Shortening the Round LigamentsFifteen years have gone since my name became associated with uterine displacements, on account of the discovery and practical application of the method of controlling a displaced uterus by' shortening the round ligaments.During all these years I have performed the operation in a great many cases, the record of which will appear on subsequent pages. I have watched the reception of the operation as it spread from place to place, I have marked its contra-indications and failures, its difficulties and dangers, I have studied the pathology of displacements on the living and the dead, and noted and considered the different opinions of the pathology of dis placement enunciated by my contemporaries and predecessors; and I think the time has now come not only to issue a second edition of my small book on the treatment of backward dis placements oi the uterus, and of prolapsus uteri, by shortening the round ligaments, but also to enlarge and extend that book by entering more fully into the pathology of displacements generally, their symptoms, and the general methods of treating them.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy.

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