DeC. 2,1871.] THE BRITISH MEDICAL _OURNAL. 635 27th. She was in a miserable condition, extremely emaciated and blanched. The uterus had apparently been first retroverted, and then had become completely prolapsed. The fundus was lowermost, and the os was reached by passing the finger between the vulva, which could not bave been had the case been one of inversion, as was at one time suppsed. Any effort to return the mass being evidently useless, and the utility of the proceeding, if successful, more than doubtful, a ligature