Many
authors are accredited with mentioning instances of defective or
deficient uteri, among them Bosquet, Boyer, Walther, Le Fort,
Calori, Pozzi, Munde, and Strauch. Balade has reported a curious
absence of the uterus and vagina in a girl of eighteen. Azem,
Bastien, Bibb, Bovel, Warren, Ward, and many others report
similar instances, and in several cases all the adnexa as well as
the uterus and vagina were absent, and even the kidney and
bladder malformed.
Phillips speaks of two sisters, both married, with congenital
absence of the uterus. In his masterly article on "Heredity,"
Sedgwick quotes an instance of total absence of the uterus in
three out of five daughters of the same family; two of the three
were twice married.
Double uterus is so frequently reported that an enumeration of
the cases would occupy several pages. Bicorn, bipartite, duplex,
and double uteruses are so called according to the extent of the
duplication. The varieties range all the way from slight increase
to two distinct uteruses, with separate appendages and two
vaginae. Meckel, Boehmer, and Callisen are among the older
writers who have observed double uterus with associate double
vagina. Figure 150 represents a transverse section of a bipartite
uterus with a double vagina.
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