Manual of gynecology . Fig. crescent speculum. wall blade (Fig. 87). The beak of the posterior blade is thus in theposterior fornix ; that of the anterior blade in the anterior fornix. From. Fig. 89. Cuscos speculum. their contact a leverage is obtained on separating the handles, by whichtraction is made on the fornices and the cervical canal more or lesseverted. EXAMINATION OF THE FEMALE PELVIC ORGANS. 121 Fig. 88 shows a useful modification of this by Barnes, known as theCrescent speculum. The Neugebauer and Crescent specula are useful in making cervicaland endometiic applications,
Manual of gynecology . Fig. crescent speculum. wall blade (Fig. 87). The beak of the posterior blade is thus in theposterior fornix ; that of the anterior blade in the anterior fornix. From. Fig. 89. Cuscos speculum. their contact a leverage is obtained on separating the handles, by whichtraction is made on the fornices and the cervical canal more or lesseverted. EXAMINATION OF THE FEMALE PELVIC ORGANS. 121 Fig. 88 shows a useful modification of this by Barnes, known as theCrescent speculum. The Neugebauer and Crescent specula are useful in making cervicaland endometiic applications, and are better specula than the Fergusson. 4. The Cusco or Bivalve speculum is shown at Fig. 89. It is composedof two blades jointed on to one another at their bases. The blades areopened to the desired distance by pressure on the thumb-piece and keptopen by a screw. It is introduced with its blades right and left and thenturned so that they lie anterior and posterior, that with the screw beingposterior. It is then pushed onwards, and the blades opened and fixed bythe screw. Care should be taken not to catch any of the perineal hairs in thescrew ; and, in withdrawing it, not to pinch up the v
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