Elm tents for the dilatation of the cervix uteri / by Horatio R. Storer.

  • Horatio Storer
Date:
[1855?]
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Credit: Elm tents for the dilatation of the cervix uteri / by Horatio R. Storer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ELM TENTS FOR TIJE DILATATION OF THE CERVIX UTERI BY HORATIO R. STORER, M. D. ONK OF THE PHYSICIANS TO THE BOSTON LYING-IN HOSPITAL. [From the Eoston Medical and Surgical Journal of Nov. 8, 1855.] WW In May last I proposed, in a paper read beiore the Medico-Chi- rurgical Society of Edinburgh, that, for .the more satisfactory diag- nosis and treatment of certain forms of uterine disease, tents of elm bark should be substituted for those hitherto in use. A brief ab- stract of these remarks was subsequently published in one of the London Journals ;# and was thence copied shortly after into the pages of this. Since my return, I have been frequently questioned upon the subject—to an extent that convinces me my own impressions of its interest were not too extravagant—and have been requested to re- peat more fully than they have been reported, the views I expressed in Edinburgh. They were mainly the following :—that sponge, the ordinary ma- terial for uterine tents, is open to certain objections—previously, I believe, hardly insisted upon, if pointed out; that in certain cases a substitute is desirable ; and that in many cases at least, such is found in the elm bark. To this I added, and would still do so, in justice to myself, that, as in most matters of new inquiry, the agent proposed is as yet by no means all that could be desired. My suggestion was made only in the hope that it might be improved upon, by others. * Association Medical Journal, May 1855, p. 'tW-