. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. Fig. 4306.—Thomass Ante-version should be bent upward. Dr. Thomas has made severalforms of anteversion pessaries. The form most in usehas been called the open cup pessary (Fig. 4306). It is introduced open. Uponpulling upon the bow which pre-sents at the mouth of the vagina,the piece which sustains the ute-rus falls back, and it can readilybe withdrawn by patient or phy-sician. Fowlers pessary (Fig. 4309) isalso of use in certain cases, es-pecially when
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. Fig. 4306.—Thomass Ante-version should be bent upward. Dr. Thomas has made severalforms of anteversion pessaries. The form most in usehas been called the open cup pessary (Fig. 4306). It is introduced open. Uponpulling upon the bow which pre-sents at the mouth of the vagina,the piece which sustains the ute-rus falls back, and it can readilybe withdrawn by patient or phy-sician. Fowlers pessary (Fig. 4309) isalso of use in certain cases, es-pecially when there is a laceratedcervix, as it supports the uterus,and protects and rolls in theeroded surfaces of the of these pessaries require thegreatest skill and care in their introduction and manage-ment, otherwise they are worse than useless. Retroversion and Retroflexion. PathologicalAnatomy and Etiology.—As retroversion and retroflexionalmost always exist to-gether, and cannot be separated either by symptomsor for treatment, they willbe here considered as prac-tically one and the samedisease. Retroflexion is one of thecommonest and most im-portant of gynaec
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