Endometritis of the body of the womb, in contra-distinction to a partial inflammation, located and confined to the mucous membrane of the neck or cervix of the womb, forms another or third variety of this affection. This disease has been described under the names of chronic corporeal endometritis, uterine catarrh, uterine leucorrhœa, and internal metritis, and the seat of it is confined to the lining membrane of the cavity of the womb, without complicating the cavity of the cervix; but there is no doubt that when either the one or the other is the seat of a stubborn catarrh, the remaining portion of the uterus must become sooner or later more or less compromised in the diseased process. Chronic cervical endometritis is where the inflammation affects the membrane of the neck; this has been described under the names of cervical catarrh, cervical leucorrhœa, and endocervicitis. These terms are all derived in composition from the Latin word _cervix_, neck. The uterus is really divided into two cavities that run into each other; one of these is the cavity of the body, while the other is the cavity of the cervix, a fusiform canal, measuring about one inch and a quarter in length. The cervix partly projects into the vagina, and, as a result, is liable to injury and irritation, to which the other portion of the organ is not exposed. Friction and other influences aggravate the inflammatory process, so that erosions, granular and cystic degenerations, follicular ulcers and chronic enlargements, become complications of the catarrhal inflammation of the cervix. To return again to a consideration of the general aspect of catarrh of the womb, for it is one and the same pathological process that underlies the different forms. There is a simplicity in the relation of cause and effect, that will strike the casual student as one of the most instructive lessons that it is possible to learn, because it also suggests the simplicity of the measures of which persons can avail themselves for the prevention or cure of this affection. From the physiological reasons that were mentioned as a cause of endometritis, it follows, as a natural consequence, that the predisposition to catarrh of the womb, varies greatly with the age of persons, so that before the age of puberty, at a time when there are no periodical congestions of the womb from the menses, it occurs very rarely, while from the period of pubescence, and during the functional activity of the pelvic organs, it is very prevalent, but at the approach of the menopause and sexual decadence the predisposition is again lost. As far as the character and nature of uterine catarrh is concerned, that which in technical language is termed the _pathological anatomy_ is no different from what it is in catarrhal inflammations in other organs, so that the remarks that were made on similar affections of other organs, apply with equal correctness to catarrh of the uterus.