A text-book of practical obstetrics, comprising pregnancy, labor, and the puerpal state, and obstetric surgery . ibed under the subject of the induction of premature laboris to be selected. The administration of so-called abortifacients and resort toelectricity are proposed methods for the induction of abor-tion which are so problematical in their results as not to be ARTIFICIAL ABORTION. 41 worthy of trial. Tamponing the vagina, associated with theadministration of ergot, was a method formerly greatly in should be rejected, however, because it is slow in action, un-certain in its res
A text-book of practical obstetrics, comprising pregnancy, labor, and the puerpal state, and obstetric surgery . ibed under the subject of the induction of premature laboris to be selected. The administration of so-called abortifacients and resort toelectricity are proposed methods for the induction of abor-tion which are so problematical in their results as not to be ARTIFICIAL ABORTION. 41 worthy of trial. Tamponing the vagina, associated with theadministration of ergot, was a method formerly greatly in should be rejected, however, because it is slow in action, un-certain in its results, and difficult to maintain aseptically. Thesponge tent for dilating the cervix cannot be too strongly con-demned, on the ground that the chances of sepsis following itsuse are very great. It should ever be borne in mind that theoperation is performed in the interest of the woman, and thatthe one risk the physician subjects her to is sepsis. OPERATION FOR THE INDUCTION OF ABORTION. The instruments strictly requisite are: A steel-brancheduterine dilator, a uterine dull curette, an ovum forceps, an intra-. Fig. 20.—Steel-branched Dilator. uterine irrigating tube, the finger. These instruments shouldbe carefully sterilized. The intestinal canal should be thoroughly emptied byenema, and the bladder by catheter. The external genitals and
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