Treatise on gynæcology : medical and surgical . oportioned to the thickness of the parts to be traversed, separatestitches are placed at intervals of about a half-inch. These suturesare introduced at about the same distance from the edge of thewound, penetrate through the adipose tissue until the aponeurosis isreached, and return in a similar manner through the second lip of thewound. Both ends of each suture are held by forceps, the wound isnow washed with a strong carbolic solution, the edges are approxi-mated, and with a small needle and fine catgut, or silk-worm gut, one or 52 CLINICAL AND
Treatise on gynæcology : medical and surgical . oportioned to the thickness of the parts to be traversed, separatestitches are placed at intervals of about a half-inch. These suturesare introduced at about the same distance from the edge of thewound, penetrate through the adipose tissue until the aponeurosis isreached, and return in a similar manner through the second lip of thewound. Both ends of each suture are held by forceps, the wound isnow washed with a strong carbolic solution, the edges are approxi-mated, and with a small needle and fine catgut, or silk-worm gut, one or 52 CLINICAL AND OPERATIVE GYNAECOLOGY. two superficial interrupted sutures are placed in each interval be-tAveen the deep sutures. They must be quite close to the edges andbring them into exact juxtaposition. (I often replace these by a finecontinued catgut suture.) !Not until these are inserted and tied, arethe forceps taken from the ends of the deep sutures and these firmlyfastened (Fig. 33). If the abdominal walls be rigid, as in nulliparae, or tense from.
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