A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . Fig. No. 16.—Stitches inserted Fig. No. 17.—Sutures tightenedafter Amputation of cervixUteri. These sutures should be of silver wire, arid should beinserted as shown, so as to draw the mucous membrane ofthe vagina over the stump, and also serve to draw out tosome extent the mucous membrane of the cervical canal, and 170 EATON ON DISEASES OF WOMEN prevent a cicatrix, which might close the os. This plan,also, has the advantage of causing healing by first intentionof a large part, if n
A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . Fig. No. 16.—Stitches inserted Fig. No. 17.—Sutures tightenedafter Amputation of cervixUteri. These sutures should be of silver wire, arid should beinserted as shown, so as to draw the mucous membrane ofthe vagina over the stump, and also serve to draw out tosome extent the mucous membrane of the cervical canal, and 170 EATON ON DISEASES OF WOMEN prevent a cicatrix, which might close the os. This plan,also, has the advantage of causing healing by first intentionof a large part, if not all, of the stump, which saves muchtime from that required for healing by granulation. Thesutures may be cut and removed about the seventh day. Awad of cotton smeared with vaseline applied twice a dayagainst the os is a desirable dressing, both before and afterthe sutures are removed. It is best to do this without theaid of the speculum, as its introduction will, in a measure,bruise the stump, and prevent healing. The sutures maybest be inserted and removed with the aid of Sims speculumimproved by Dawson. (See Plate III in chapter o
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