. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. Emmets Uterine Kepositor. 5HEPARBfcnUDr^ joints, it can be removed one joint at a time without againretroverting the uterus. As there have been bad results With the patient on the side the length of the vaginashould be measured, the curve and width necessary to 453 UterineDisplacements. REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL Fig. 4321. hold the uterus should he estimated, and a pessary pre-pared on the general model of Smiths, embodying thesemeasurements. T
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. Emmets Uterine Kepositor. 5HEPARBfcnUDr^ joints, it can be removed one joint at a time without againretroverting the uterus. As there have been bad results With the patient on the side the length of the vaginashould be measured, the curve and width necessary to 453 UterineDisplacements. REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL Fig. 4321. hold the uterus should he estimated, and a pessary pre-pared on the general model of Smiths, embodying thesemeasurements. The best pessary for this preliminarymoulding (block tin was used by Sims) is a very ingen-ious instrument made by Otto & Sons, of New York. Itis made on the Smith pattern of an elastic wire spring,covered with soft rubber. It can be bent and set inany shape, and still remains elastic. Such a pessary ismoulded to fit the case in hand, and its shape can readilybe changed as occasion may require. It is easily intro-duced on account of its compressibility, and is less objec-tionable than the unyielding hard-rubber pessary in casethere is tenderness. The soft-rubbercovering, however, becomes foul withthe vaginal secretions after a time ; it is,therefore, not so suitable as a permanentsupport. When the pa-tient has become accus-tomed to, and is com-fortable with, such apessary (which usuallyhappens after a monthor two) it should becopied in hard
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