Treatise on gynæcology : medical and surgical . Fig. 242.—Landowskis Pessaries. Fig. 243.—Schcltzes Figure-of-Eight Pessary. numeral 8, which encircle the cervix and lift it backward; theyare made of copper covered with rubber. An instrument is chosenwhose upper curves embrace the cervix without strangling it, and thelower ring is adapted to the size of the vagina and the angle of thepubic arch. These pessaries are best for nulliparae, in whom the vagina 29 450 CLINICAL AND OPERATIVE GYNAECOLOGY. is resistant and there is no need of seeking a point of support fromthe pubis; in the latter case
Treatise on gynæcology : medical and surgical . Fig. 242.—Landowskis Pessaries. Fig. 243.—Schcltzes Figure-of-Eight Pessary. numeral 8, which encircle the cervix and lift it backward; theyare made of copper covered with rubber. An instrument is chosenwhose upper curves embrace the cervix without strangling it, and thelower ring is adapted to the size of the vagina and the angle of thepubic arch. These pessaries are best for nulliparae, in whom the vagina 29 450 CLINICAL AND OPERATIVE GYNAECOLOGY. is resistant and there is no need of seeking a point of support fromthe pubis; in the latter case they are intolerable (Figs. 243, 244). Landowskis ingenious pessaries resemble those of Schultze; theyare made of flexible tin, and the T-shaped stem may be put in onedirection or the other according as we wish to employ it for antever-sion or retroversion (Fig. 242). In the latter case the stem is bentfrom behind forward and the anterior vaginal wall is in relation withits concavity; this stem abuts against the pubes, embracing with itsre
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