. Diseases of women. A clinical guide to their diagnosis and treatment. Fig. 46.— Aitkensporcelain stem. UTERINE DISPLACEMENTS: PROLAPSE. L33. Fig. 47.—Cutters pessary, with cup. by clean ones. White tapes or white elastic can be moreeasily changed than indiarubber tubing. The waist-beltshould also be so made that the patient can herself make anyneedful the patientto take out the pes-sary every night andreplace it beforerising in the morn-ing, and to changethe tapes when theyare dirt}. Cutters pessary(Fig. 47).—This hasa crescentic bar, acup, or a loop (Fig. 48) mounted on
. Diseases of women. A clinical guide to their diagnosis and treatment. Fig. 46.— Aitkensporcelain stem. UTERINE DISPLACEMENTS: PROLAPSE. L33. Fig. 47.—Cutters pessary, with cup. by clean ones. White tapes or white elastic can be moreeasily changed than indiarubber tubing. The waist-beltshould also be so made that the patient can herself make anyneedful the patientto take out the pes-sary every night andreplace it beforerising in the morn-ing, and to changethe tapes when theyare dirt}. Cutters pessary(Fig. 47).—This hasa crescentic bar, acup, or a loop (Fig. 48) mounted on a stem having a perineal curve; fromthis a piece of indiarubber tubing passes back between thenates, and is connected with a strap which buckles on toa waist belt, The bar or loop should go into the posteriorvaginal fornix. Itthus raises the uterushigher than the cupand stem does. Theobjections to it are, thatit is more difficult forthe patient herself toadjust, for the top ofthe instrument tendsto get in front of theuterus ; and that theindiarubber band goingbetween the nates £etsdirty. Most patients will like the cup and stem bet
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