Foreign body in the uterine cavity

The author describes the following rare case of finding a metallic foreign body in the uterus. On May 18, 1890, he was approached by a woman who, on May 6, being on the 3rd month of pregnancy, in order to have a squatting abortion, inserted a hairpin into her uterus. I had a miscarriage. When examined, the vagina is free and the uterine opening is closed. The uterus is slightly enlarged, it is still in retroversio. In the anterior vault, on the right, the blunt end of a barely moving object is felt. With a probe, at the place of the internal uterine os, you come across a solid object, between the dark as the uterine cavity above is empty.