Minor surgical gynecology : a manual of uterine diagnosis and the lesser technicalities of gynecological practice : for the use of the advanced student and general practitioner . r used it, but itis highly recommended by its inventor and by Dr. Sims, and I can readily PESSAKIES. 349 imagine how in retroversion with descensus it might prove useful. Fromits construction I should have supposed it to be designed for anteversion,the long tongue supporting the uterus. Dr. Thomas, in his latest edition.(November, 1880), calls it Fowlers pessary for anterior displacements;the directions of the invento
Minor surgical gynecology : a manual of uterine diagnosis and the lesser technicalities of gynecological practice : for the use of the advanced student and general practitioner . r used it, but itis highly recommended by its inventor and by Dr. Sims, and I can readily PESSAKIES. 349 imagine how in retroversion with descensus it might prove useful. Fromits construction I should have supposed it to be designed for anteversion,the long tongue supporting the uterus. Dr. Thomas, in his latest edition.(November, 1880), calls it Fowlers pessary for anterior displacements;the directions of the inventor, however, are for retroversion. A retroversion pessary, constructed for another object, is the galvaniclever pessary of Hanks (Fig. 269) for amenorrhea. The galvanic cur-rent generated by the action of the acid vaginal secretion on the alter-nate copper and zinc beads, might possibly stimulate the uterus to growtliand metrostaxis; but I doubt whether the soft parts would long endurethe pressure of the beads at the posterior segment. Abrasions and indentations made by lever pessaries are usually foundbehind the cervix and along either descending branch of the pubic
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