. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. Fig. 4o00.—Lines of Incisions in Flexure of the Body. (After Emmet.) I Of the 85, only 72 were capable of having children, and14 of these became pregnant. There were no deaths,and only a few cases of slight pelvic inflammation. These results are wonderfully good. Although thosewho have followed Dr. Goodell are not equally enthusi-astic, yet this operation has been accepted as the besttreatment now known for dysmenorrhceaand sterility due to anteflexion. In mildca
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. Fig. 4o00.—Lines of Incisions in Flexure of the Body. (After Emmet.) I Of the 85, only 72 were capable of having children, and14 of these became pregnant. There were no deaths,and only a few cases of slight pelvic inflammation. These results are wonderfully good. Although thosewho have followed Dr. Goodell are not equally enthusi-astic, yet this operation has been accepted as the besttreatment now known for dysmenorrhceaand sterility due to anteflexion. In mildcases, or where the patient is unwilling totake ether, the same result may be accom-plished by dilating a little at several sittingswith the small dilators, or with a series ofgraduated dilators. (Fig. 4299.) This dilatation and straightening of theuterus were formerly accomplished by theuse of sponge tents, later by tupelo or lami-naria tents. But this method has provedtoo dangerous on account of septic infec-tion, and has been abandoned. In certainvery difficult cases (Fig. 4300), and in caseswhere the uterine tissue has bec
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