The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . Fig. 1061.—Method of Packing the Puer-peral Uterus.—(From a photograph.) Fig. 1062.—Method of Packing thePuerperal Uterus. segment, as in some cases of placenta praevia or cervical laceration, the vaginal packing should be tight. In some cases the uterus may be pressed down so far that it is not necessary to draw it down by means of in-struments, and if the latter arelacking, the gauze may usuallybe introduced by means of thehand being passed into theuterine cavity. If sterile gauzeis not at hand, clea
The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . Fig. 1061.—Method of Packing the Puer-peral Uterus.—(From a photograph.) Fig. 1062.—Method of Packing thePuerperal Uterus. segment, as in some cases of placenta praevia or cervical laceration, the vaginal packing should be tight. In some cases the uterus may be pressed down so far that it is not necessary to draw it down by means of in-struments, and if the latter arelacking, the gauze may usuallybe introduced by means of thehand being passed into theuterine cavity. If sterile gauzeis not at hand, clean linen orother material which has beenboiled and soaked in a disinfect-ant solution may be substitutedin the case of grave most convenient method foruterine as well as vaginal tam-ponade will be found in the useof a mechanical surgical dress-ing packer.* I have for severalyears in hospital and privateYTj- inch, for the puerperal uterus of
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