Abstract
A colored woman, aged 33, married, was admitted to Grady Hospital, Dec. 3, 1920, complaining of weakness and pain in the right lower abdomen. She had always been in good health and gave no history of serious illness, operations or venereal disease. Her menses had been regular. She had had three full term, normal pregnancies and labors with normal puerperia, the last one occurring in 1917. There had been no miscarriages. The menstrual periods were regular and normal during the summer and fall of 1920, and the October period began at the regular time but was more profuse than usual, and lasted two weeks. From this time on, the periods remained absent. During the latter part of October and during part of November, she was nursing a sick relative and thought that the strain of lifting the patient caused pain in the right lower abdomen. She gave no history of
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