One of the most constant symptoms is pain in the back, and this is severe in proportion to the swelling and sensitiveness of the organ, when it presses on the sacral nerves and rectum. As a result of the flexion, the circulation in the organ is interfered with, so that the congested uterus feels heavy, and there is a sensation of fullness and bearing down, that greatly hinders walking. Uterine catarrh and hyperæmia place the organ in such an irritable state that prolonged and excessive menstruation is the rule. This may last for fourteen days, so that the patients become anæmic and greatly debilitated from the excessive loss of blood. The menstruation is always more painful, especially at the beginning of the flow; this pain may be interrupted or spasmodic, so that it assumes the form of a uterine colic; the lower abdominal region becomes painful and the pain radiates towards the groins. The degree of suffering is very seldom as great as that which characterizes anteflexion, because the obstruction in the latter flexions are much greater than in retroflexions. Those women who have borne children suffer less pain during menstruation than those who have never been pregnant. It may be presumed that, in the latter class, the flexion was congenital or acquired in early childhood, which makes the obstruction or constriction more complete and obstinate, and for that reason it induces sterility. With those who have once borne and afterwards acquired the flexion, the possibility of conception is much greater. When the enlarged and swollen body of the uterus is pushed backwards and downwards, it presses on the sacral plexus of nerves; this is a bundle of nerves that supplies branches to the legs, and from this pressure the lower extremities become lame or paralyzed either on one or both sides. The paralysis subsides after the removal of the offending body. There is quite a number of other neurotic affections that can often be traced to a retroflected uterus. These are all of a functional nature, and appear in the form of hysteria, epilepsy, St. Vitus’ dance and neuralgias of almost any part of the body. Dr. Chrobak, of Vienna, reported a case of asthma that had resisted all the treatments that could be suggested, until it was finally traced to a retroflected uterus; that being rectified, the asthma subsided. Irritability of the bladder is not so frequent a symptom of this variety of displacement as of others; should there be inflammation complicating the bladder, then, of course, there would be considerable annoyance from this source. Habitual constipation is often very prominent and in some of the cases it is the only sign that leads to an examination, which reveals the retroflexion. Hemorrhoids or piles, due to a compression of the veins of the rectum, are another complication included in the signs of this displacement. TREATMENT.