A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . THE OLD LONDON ABDOMINAL EATONS IMPROVED LONDON ABDOMINAL SUPPORTER. INSTRUMENTS. 157 domen around the waist, must be injurious, by pressing theabdominal viscera down into or towards the pelvis. On thecontrary, if applied to the lowest part of the abdomen tightlyand made less tight above, it lifts and holds up the abdom-inal viscera, especially when the patient is erect. (In thereclining posture no abdominal support is ever required.) Twenty and more years of practical experience in theus
A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . THE OLD LONDON ABDOMINAL EATONS IMPROVED LONDON ABDOMINAL SUPPORTER. INSTRUMENTS. 157 domen around the waist, must be injurious, by pressing theabdominal viscera down into or towards the pelvis. On thecontrary, if applied to the lowest part of the abdomen tightlyand made less tight above, it lifts and holds up the abdom-inal viscera, especially when the patient is erect. (In thereclining posture no abdominal support is ever required.) Twenty and more years of practical experience in theuse of abdominal supporters gives me stronger faith in theirbeneficial effect, than in any previous time of my life; andI have always been an advocate of their proper use. Theirrange of application is in those cases where there is tender-ness, inflammation, or displacement of the pelvic organs,cystitis, metritis, ovaritis, versions, flexions, or prolapse ofthe uterus, all of which require that the weight of the intes-tines be kept from pressing down into the pelvis. This can,of course, be done by maintaining the horizontal posi
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