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THE AMERICAN IMPROVED FAMILY PHYSICIAN.

force, when it is adherent to the fundus, &c. There is generally considerable hemorrhage, and the patient always becomes suddenly very pale, faint, and sick at the stomach; the voice is weak, the pulse rapid and fluttering, &c. In all cases, whether partial or complete inversion, its reduction must be at once, by pressing the protruded portion gently but firmly up through the vaginal passage. Its complete replacement will be known by its springing suddenly from the band.