The Dublin practice of midwifery / by Henry Maunsell.

Henry Maunsell

Date:: 1856

Credit: The Dublin practice of midwifery / by Henry Maunsell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$expect the iirine to flow when the catheter has passed in to the distance of two inches. If it shotdd be necessary, the operation may be per- formed while the patient sits upon the edge of a chair, the operator kneeling before her, and pass- ing his hand between her thighs. In either case, ' exposure of the woman^s person should be carefully . avoided. By adopting the plan just mentioned, : instead of that usually directed in books, we shall ; get rid of the necessity for irritating the cKtoris, which, for obvious reasons, is a very considerable : improvement. The orifice of the vagina is situated immediately 1 beneath that of the urethra, and in the virgin is 1 usually closed by a fold of the mucous membrane, (denominated the hymen. This, in the natural i state, has a small crescentic opening at the anterior ]part, through which the menses pass. Occasion- !aUy, this opening is wanting, and the membrane iis cribriform, or even imperforate. Carunculo} myrtiformes. — These are three or ffour wartlike excrescences at the orifice of the \ vagina, by some supposed to be the remains of tthe ruptured hymen, but by others said to exist t together with it. The foHHa navicularis is the name given to the 1^ hollow immediately within the posterior commis- jsure of the vulva.$

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