. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. —Replacement of Retroverted Uterus by Air-pressure. (Campbell-Munde reported from the reduction with a sound, and as theother methods before described are safer and equallyeffective, many of the best authorities have nearly, ifnot quite, abandoned this operation. As the dan-gers of perforation and peritonitis are so very ob-vious, it will only be necessary to say that if thismethod is used it should be done with thegreatest all these methods
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. —Replacement of Retroverted Uterus by Air-pressure. (Campbell-Munde reported from the reduction with a sound, and as theother methods before described are safer and equallyeffective, many of the best authorities have nearly, ifnot quite, abandoned this operation. As the dan-gers of perforation and peritonitis are so very ob-vious, it will only be necessary to say that if thismethod is used it should be done with thegreatest all these methods of reduction fail, onemay conclude in a general way that theuterus is bound down by adhesions ; itshould at least be treated as if suchwere the case. The sub-ject of retroversion withadhesions will be treat-ed fully later on. When replaced, theuterus should be re-tained in its normal po-sition by a vaginal pes-sary. Of these the bestform is Hodges (), or some of its.
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