Excerpt from The American Journal of the Medical Sciences: January, 1864 A very elaborate work, with plates, has lately been published in Paris, by M. Huguier, on a disease described under the above title, showing its distinc tion from simple engorgement and prolapsus of the uterus, with which it has heretofore been confounded. A most remarkable case of this disease has been published in the Boston Med. And Surg. Journal of Dec. 4, 1862, by Henry A. Martin, M.D., Surgeon U. S. Volunteers.' Other operations for this disease have been performed, in this country, by Dr. Gardner and Dr. Sims, but in none of their cases did the extent of the disease at all compare with that recorded by Dr. Martin. The following case came under my notice about a week after the record of the case of Dr. Martin had been made public. It fully sustains the anatomical description of the disease as given by Huguier in his very interesting and important work. It also shows how unsafe any surgical procedure would be, based on the idea of a simple enlargement of the os and cervix uteri, without taking into view the very remarkable displacements of other organs which occur in the course of the disease when it has proceeded so far as to be pro jected to any extent beyond the labia. I now proceed to the relation of the case. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.