Retroversion of Gravid Uterus
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On the 20th of February last I was consulted by J. M., a married woman, 38 years of age. She had had seven living children (being delivered of twin girls on one occasion) and three miscarriages, and she calculated that she was about the middle of the fifth month of her tenth pregnancy. The catamenia last appeared in the beginning of October last year, and she first felt the movement of the child a week before I saw
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