An Operation for the Cure of Prolapse and Cystocele

or both may be found in the same patient. The operative procedures described are applicable to either condition separately, to both when they occur together, or, in principle, but with certain modifications in detail, to rectocele. The object of the procedure is to reconstruct the original anatomical relations of the parts concerned, or so to alter the anatomical relations existing as the result of the deformity or displacement that the physical effect of the original natural relations is reproduced. It is necessary before describing the operative procedures to consider for a moment