StThomas's Hospital reports . 70^»- of the Female Perineum. 487 until the two sides of tlie triangle are drawn out into asingle tense, horizontal, white line (Plate I, fig. 2). Oneblade of a pointed pair of angular scissors (Fig. A) is then Fig. thrust deeply into the tissues at one extremity of this hori-zontal line, and a deep incision carried along its wholelength. From each extremity of this first incision a cutis now made running forwards, and another runningbackwards, the whole series of incisions being at this stageroughly represented, as Mr. Tait has suggested, by a very wide H ; t
StThomas's Hospital reports . 70^»- of the Female Perineum. 487 until the two sides of tlie triangle are drawn out into asingle tense, horizontal, white line (Plate I, fig. 2). Oneblade of a pointed pair of angular scissors (Fig. A) is then Fig. thrust deeply into the tissues at one extremity of this hori-zontal line, and a deep incision carried along its wholelength. From each extremity of this first incision a cutis now made running forwards, and another runningbackwards, the whole series of incisions being at this stageroughly represented, as Mr. Tait has suggested, by a very wide H ; thus ) (• The forward incisions will mark the outer boundaries oE the vaginal flap; andtheir length will determine (1) how far the denudation ofthe posterior vaginal wall is to extend, and (2) what shallbe the anterior limit of the new perineum. The temptationof the inexperienced is to make the new perineum extendtoo far forwards—to constitute it, as it were, an improvementon the original structure. This is but to court disaster, forthe new and improved perineum is, from its greater length,even more likely to suffer injury during parturition thanthe old one. What, then, are to be our guides in regard tothese forward incisions ? Tt is gene
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