. Essentials of gynecology, arranged in the form of questions and answers prepared especially for students of medicine ... as a rale, not until the uterus can be well broughtforward; but occasionally, when the uterus is elevated to aboutthe promontory, the pessary may be applied. What is the proper position of a retroversion pessary afterintroduction ? The broader extremity should lie behind the cervix and ; the narrow in front and curve downward. 138 ESSENTIALS OF GYNAECOLOGY. How would you introduce one of these retroversion pessaries ? They uiny be iutrodu«ce<I witli patient


. Essentials of gynecology, arranged in the form of questions and answers prepared especially for students of medicine ... as a rale, not until the uterus can be well broughtforward; but occasionally, when the uterus is elevated to aboutthe promontory, the pessary may be applied. What is the proper position of a retroversion pessary afterintroduction ? The broader extremity should lie behind the cervix and ; the narrow in front and curve downward. 138 ESSENTIALS OF GYNAECOLOGY. How would you introduce one of these retroversion pessaries ? They uiny be iutrodu«ce<I witli patient either in the dorsal or inSims position, preferably in the latter, and in t4ie following manner:Standing at the side of the table, near the buttocks of the patient,separate the labia a little with the fingers of the left hand ; takingthe pessary by the smaller end with the thumb and index and middlefingers of the right hand, introduce it between the labia, with thebreadth of the pessaiy in the line of the labia (see Fig. 28); depressthe perineum with the pessaiy as you introduce it about half way, Fig. 26. fiQ.


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