In this case the neck of the uterus was cartilaginous and firmly adherent to the adjacent parts.

In seven days after the accouchement the woman had completely regained her health.

Vallisneri reports the instance of a woman who possessed two uteruses, one communicating with the vagina, the other with the rectum.
She had permitted rectal copulation and had become impregnated in this manner.

Louis, the celebrated French surgeon, created a furore by a pamphlet entitled "De partium externarum generationi inservientium in mulieribus naturali vitiosa et morbosa dispositione, etc.," for which he was punished by the Sorbonne, but absolved by the Pope.

He described a young lady who had no vaginal opening, but who regularly menstruated by the rectum.