. The Richmond and Louisville medical journal. patients upon a support or chair designed by himselffor operations on the sexual organs; it weighs only seventeenpounds, and was brought over from America by himself, togetherwith all his instruments. It can be placed upon and securedto any small-sized table, and by fastening the patient upon it inthe knee-chest position, it renders the operator entirely inde-pendent of the patients movements. The abdominal musclesare relaxed, the vagina is widely opened, respiration and circu-lation are in no wise disturbed, while the patient can be kept 16 VESIC
. The Richmond and Louisville medical journal. patients upon a support or chair designed by himselffor operations on the sexual organs; it weighs only seventeenpounds, and was brought over from America by himself, togetherwith all his instruments. It can be placed upon and securedto any small-sized table, and by fastening the patient upon it inthe knee-chest position, it renders the operator entirely inde-pendent of the patients movements. The abdominal musclesare relaxed, the vagina is widely opened, respiration and circu-lation are in no wise disturbed, while the patient can be kept 16 VESICO-VAGINAL FISTULE. under the influence of chloroform for any length of time as wellas in any other position; neither does vomiting disturb the pro-gress of the operation to any unpleasant extent. In the four cases operated on by Bozeman in the GeneralHospital here, this table proved to be a perfect success. It ishardly possible to give the reader a clear idea by merely describ-ing it. I add a drawing (figure 1); which shows how the Figure 21
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