Minor surgical gynecology : a manual of uterine diagnosis and the lesser technicalities of gynecological practice : for the use of the advanced student and general practitioner . large Hodge, or Smith, or a ring pessary,A cure is generally effected only by a plastic operation. Vaginal pessaries for the relief of prolapsus uteri et vaginas consistmainly in such contrivances as act by their size, and by distending the vagi-nal walls to their utmost. These instruments then rest on the floor of thepelvis, and are prevented from being forced out by whatever contractility PESSARIES. 351 exists in th
Minor surgical gynecology : a manual of uterine diagnosis and the lesser technicalities of gynecological practice : for the use of the advanced student and general practitioner . large Hodge, or Smith, or a ring pessary,A cure is generally effected only by a plastic operation. Vaginal pessaries for the relief of prolapsus uteri et vaginas consistmainly in such contrivances as act by their size, and by distending the vagi-nal walls to their utmost. These instruments then rest on the floor of thepelvis, and are prevented from being forced out by whatever contractility PESSARIES. 351 exists in the perineum and vaginal orifice. As regards curative properties,they are all worthless, except one, the largest size of Gehrungs anteversionpessary. In construction many are faulty and dangerous, unless very care-fully watched. Of these latter, the old time-honored Zwanck, with wide-spread wings, is the best example; it is not yet obsolete, unfortunately. Ihave seen one case of vesico-vaginal fistula produced by the pressure ofone of these wings. It keeps up the uterus, true, but at the expense ofall hope of ultimate cure, and with danger to the patient, unless she be in-.
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