This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...the cervix uteri. Dr. Sims offers some valuable remarks on this subject in his work. They must be made of good sponge, or they are useless; as a rule the sponge-tents procured in shops are worthless. Great care is necessary in their employment, for otherwise they are very liable to produce tronblesome consequences. It ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...the cervix uteri. Dr. Sims offers some valuable remarks on this subject in his work. They must be made of good sponge, or they are useless; as a rule the sponge-tents procured in shops are worthless. Great care is necessary in their employment, for otherwise they are very liable to produce tronblesome consequences. It is by no means easy to introduce a sponge-tent into a small cervix uteri, especially if the canal be a little flexed. When difficulty is experienced, Dr. Sims's plan is the best, the patient being placed on the side, the speculum introduced, and the 03 uteri drawn down slightly by means of a hook. It will be found necessary to hold the tent very firmly. This is best done by dressing speculum-forceps, the pivot of which is near the farther end, so as to give a good leverage. I employ an instrument having also a rack and catch at the handles see Fig. 83). The tent must be rounded at the point, firm and hard, and the length and size adapted to the requirements of the case. A piece of cotton-wool or lint must be placed in the vagina, so as to retain the tent in situ. In six or eight hours the canal may be thus greatly expanded. Spongetents should not be allowed to remain longer than 6ix or eight hours. They should never be used after any cutting operation has been performed on the os uteri, except after an interval of some weeks. The irritative symptoms they sometimes produce are best treated by opium and by application of turpentinestupes to the abdomen. The stem of the sea-tangle (Zaminaria digitata), introduced by the late Dr. Sloan, of Ayr, is now largely used for dilating the cervix uteri. It is hard, firm, swells out, on being moistened, to twice its dry diameter, and is very cleanly. One objection to it is that it is liable to slip out befo...
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