. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. Fig. 3957. — » method. lution of corrosive sublimateat or near the same tempera-ture. Very hot water un-doubtedly has a most excel-lent aseptic effect uponfreshly made wounds bycausing instantaneous con-traction of the opened ves-sels, and thereby lessening theliability to the entrance of in-fected matter. Instead of using vaginal injections nightand morning for the following ten days during conva-lescence, the writer tampons the vagina with
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. Fig. 3957. — » method. lution of corrosive sublimateat or near the same tempera-ture. Very hot water un-doubtedly has a most excel-lent aseptic effect uponfreshly made wounds bycausing instantaneous con-traction of the opened ves-sels, and thereby lessening theliability to the entrance of in-fected matter. Instead of using vaginal injections nightand morning for the following ten days during conva-lescence, the writer tampons the vagina with carefullyshaped disks of sublimated cotton, saturated in a 1 to 40 * Dr. Skene, of Brooklyn, has devised a special scissors, shaped asshown in Fig. 3953, for exsecting at a single stroke the cicatricial Sutton, of Pittsburg, has devised the plan of denudation, as shownin Fig. 3957. whereby a large amount of diseased tissue is removed andstill the patency of the cervical canal is 3958.—Trachelorrhaphy,ders method. Schroe- aud divided with a seal- \pel transversely, at itsbase, more than half-waythrough its entire thick-ness. This incision isimmediately met by an-other, from the apex ofthe cervix downward bylongitudinal this way the wholeof the erosion is exsected, and can never be replaced, asthe mucous membrane in its entirety has been removed(Fig. 3958). The anterior lip is treated in the same way,and the sutures are introduced in the manner shown in the cuts (Figs. 3958 and3959). When the sutureshave been removed andthe parts have entirelyhealed, it will be foundthat the vaginal coveringof the cervix has beenturned in to line whathas now become the cer-vical canal (Fig. 3959). Of these two methods,Schroeders has given thewriter the better resultsin all cases of cervicallaceration accompaniedwith hyperplasia and ero-sion. And the only casesconsidered suitable forEmmets method arethose in which the lesionis of recent date, and nocha
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