Excerpt from The Australasian Medical Gazette, Vol. 22: The Journal of the Australasian Branches of the British Medical Association; From January to December, 1903 The abdomen was uniformly distended, with bulged flanks, and bore a 4} inch middle line cicatrix below the umbilicus, the lower 2 inches being unduly wide and the seat of an incisional hernia. Fluctuation and fluid thrill all over abdomen, with dulness in flanks becoming resonant on changed position. Mensuration, circumferentially at umbilicus 35} inches. Bimanually, uterus adpressed to symphysis, enlarged, fixed; pelvis choked with fixed, bilateral, hard, non-sensitive nodular mass, which could be indefinitely defined superiorly through the hernial orifice. Heart, liver and kidneys normal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.