Deviation of the uterus and its curvature

Sometimes the uterus happens to deviate towards one of the woman’s sides, and then the mouth of the uterus moves away and does not lie opposite the place from which the seed rushes into it. Often the cause of this is the hardness of one of the halves of the uterus or its hardening and compression, as a result of which the two halves differ in respect to moisture and relaxation, dryness and tension, and sometimes the cause is rooted in a particular congestion of some vessel in one of the halves. The cause is also thick, viscous juices in one half of the uterus, which burden it and pull the other half in its direction; This often results in “suffocation of the uterus.” Midwives recognize the direction of deviation by feeling the diseased uterus with their fingers, and easily determine whether it is due to overflow or hardening by the degree of tension of the vessels, hardness and the need for emptying.

Treatment. It is necessary to bleed from the jugular vein on the side opposite to the half to which the uterus deviates, if overflow is felt and the midwife claims that the vessels on this side are tense and overcrowded and there is thickening there. If compression and wrinkling is observed there, but there is no thickening, then they use emollients in the form of enemas, suppositories and rubs, prescribe a bath and improve nutrition. And if there are liquids there, then they are removed by means of emptying them and the patient is given castor oil, which is also used in candles. The patient is rubbed into the perineum and balsam oil, lily oil and similar oils are injected into the uterus. Then the midwife often manages to insert fingers lubricated with wax ointment or duck or chicken fat into the vagina and straighten the uterus, pulling the part that has deviated to the side so that the mouth of the uterus is opposite the vagina.