After washing this mass it was found to be a portion of the vaginal parietes and the fleshy body of the neck of the uterus.

The woman believed she had miscarried, and still persisted in refusing medicine.

Cicatrization was somewhat delayed; immediately on leaving the hospital she returned to her old habits, but the pain and hemorrhage attending copulation was so great that she had finally to desist.

The vagina, however, gradually yielding, ceased to interfere with the gratification of her desires.

Toward the end of June the menses reappeared and flowed with the greatest regularity.