Catalogue of Sharp & Smith : importers, manufacturers, wholesale and retail dealers in surgical instruments, deformity apparatus, artificial limbs, artificial eyes, elastic stockings, trusses, crutches, supporters, galvanic and faradic batteries, etc., surgeons' appliances of every description . 3728—Open. 3728—Closed, 3732—Open. 638 SHARP & SMITH, CHICAGO. *3736*3737*373S *3739*3740 37413742 GYNAECOLOGICAL—PESSARIES. Conants Intra Uterine Stem Pessary , ^ i Dr. Wm. H. Wathens Intra Uterine Stem Pessary i Jacksons Elastic Hard Rubber Hard Rubber Peaslees , i Galvanic I Thomas i 75253575550000.
Catalogue of Sharp & Smith : importers, manufacturers, wholesale and retail dealers in surgical instruments, deformity apparatus, artificial limbs, artificial eyes, elastic stockings, trusses, crutches, supporters, galvanic and faradic batteries, etc., surgeons' appliances of every description . 3728—Open. 3728—Closed, 3732—Open. 638 SHARP & SMITH, CHICAGO. *3736*3737*373S *3739*3740 37413742 GYNAECOLOGICAL—PESSARIES. Conants Intra Uterine Stem Pessary , ^ i Dr. Wm. H. Wathens Intra Uterine Stem Pessary i Jacksons Elastic Hard Rubber Hard Rubber Peaslees , i Galvanic I Thomas i 75253575550000. Fig- 3736.—Dr. Wm. H. Wathens ElasticStem Pessary. In treating uterine flexures or curvatures unconnected with great stenosis, one has troublewith a rigid stem pessary, which causes irritation of the part. Elastic pressure being the propermode of treating those, as well as flexures of other parts of the body, a Pessary, described by theaccompanying cut, has been devised by Wm. H. Wathen, M. D., Louisville, Ky. It is made of soft red rubber, of the same shape as an ordinary simple Stem Pessary, witha flange at the lower end fitting smoothly over the cervix, but perforated so as to allow free dis-charge of secretions. The stem is hollow, so as to allow the introduction of an elastic stylet ofany desired strength the operator may wish, but great force is not necessary. The stylet can bemade by any person, whittled out of whalebone or hard rubber, left hard enough at the outer endto tightly fill the stem, exclude the moisture, and retain it in place. In ordinary cases, the stem can be i
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