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 . Fig. 275.—Peaslees elastic ring pessary. Fig. 276.—Zwancks prolap-sus pessary. It is introducedwith closed wings and expand-ed by turning a screw ia thehandle. age), and that is all. In many cases, however, that is all that is expectedor possible. So far as possibility of injury is concerned, the inflated soft-rubber bags of Gariel and Braun are certainly the best; they are intro-duced, closed, and expanded with air o


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 . Fig. 275.—Peaslees elastic ring pessary. Fig. 276.—Zwancks prolap-sus pessary. It is introducedwith closed wings and expand-ed by turning a screw ia thehandle. age), and that is all. In many cases, however, that is all that is expectedor possible. So far as possibility of injury is concerned, the inflated soft-rubber bags of Gariel and Braun are certainly the best; they are intro-duced, closed, and expanded with air or water, and can easily be emptiedand refilled by the patient herself. They require daily removal and cleans-ing, being best kept overnight in a basin of carbolized water. The largeglass balls shown in Fig. 278 need no description. All these instruments,it will be seen, still belong to the primeval age of the science of mechani- 352 A TREATISE ON MINOR SURGICAL GYNECOLOGY. cal support in uterine displacements. They are simply described and stilllargely employed for vjant of something better. Gehrungs largest sized anteversion pessary has, in my hands, perfectlyretaine


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