"Malposition" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... most, married women whose health is broken down by some disease peculiar to their sex, refer the commencement of their suffering to some confinement or premature birth. Perhaps, in four cases out of five, this breaking down is one of the symptoms of a displacement of the internal organs,—a malposition, in other words, of the uterus. This is familiarly known as an 'inward weakness;' and many a woman drags through years of misery caused by ...
— The Physical Life of Woman: - Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother • Dr. George H Napheys
... necessary evils. It may be that they are not evils at all; that they give more pleasure than pain, seeing that they tend to the enjoyment of the multitude. But there are edifices of this description which cry aloud to the gods by the force of their own ugliness and malposition. As to such, it may be said that there should somewhere exist a power capable of crushing them in their birth. This new obelisk, or picture-building at ...
— Volume 1 • Anthony Trollope |
