Note (11) — BOOK I.

11. Quantity of flesh.) I shall not trouble the reader with several various and opposite opinions of this case, by different commentators; it will be sufficient to recite the opinion of Morgagni[ IF ] (which appears the only probable one) and the reasons with which he supports it. In his anatomical lectures he explained it as an inverted uterus, which he says resembles nothing more than flesh, and is quickly seized with a gangrene, for the reasons given by Ruysch. Observ. Anat. Chir. 10. and thus[ IG ] Celsus, in the description of a gangrene, mentions siccam et aridam carnem; and Boerhaave says, an inverted uterus is seized with a gangrene in three hours after its inversion, which agrees with intra paueas horas in this place.——The ingenious author, first mentioned, confirms this explanation by a case that occurred to a surgeon, who, struck with the novelty of it, came immediately to ask his opinion: upon his shewing the surgeon Ruysch’s delineation of an inverted uterus, he confessed it to be perfectly similar.——Morgagni advised him to run back and replace it immediately, which he did in an hour after its inversion, and the lady was cured.