A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . which Ave can recommend (about eighty in num-ber), and we devote one chapter exclusively to their con-sideration, that the student may learn something of the usesand advantages of them, as well as be cautioned againsttheir abuse. There is no work on Diseases of Women nowpublished (1880) which, in our opinion, is fully up with thetimes in the matter of gynaecological instruments. This isstrikingly evident in the matter of speculums, Cuscos beingthe best bi-valve published, and Sims original speculum b
A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . which Ave can recommend (about eighty in num-ber), and we devote one chapter exclusively to their con-sideration, that the student may learn something of the usesand advantages of them, as well as be cautioned againsttheir abuse. There is no work on Diseases of Women nowpublished (1880) which, in our opinion, is fully up with thetimes in the matter of gynaecological instruments. This isstrikingly evident in the matter of speculums, Cuscos beingthe best bi-valve published, and Sims original speculum be-ing the best one presented as a retracting speculum—all ex-cept Richardson having omitted Dawsons improved Simsspeculum. (See Plate III.) This has one of the blades slit in two, and fixed with ascrew so they may be separated, which is a great improve-ment in enabling us to bring into view the walls of thevagina or the cervix uteri. If we desire to use the instru-ment in its original form, we have but to screw the dividedblade together and we have it. This instrument we ordi- Plate III. SIMS ORIGINAL SPECULUM.
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