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Credit: Woman : her diseases and their treatment / by John King. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![opposite denuded surface, and made to pass beneath it in an upward and outward direction, until its poiut reappears externally at the same distance from the external edge of the denuded surface on the right side, as that at which it entered on the left side. Three sutures are to be introduced in the same way, at equal distances from each other, the first one as near the rectum as possible, without piercing it. The twine for each suture is double, that it may enclose the quills, or pieces of elastic bougie, around which it loops on one side, being tied over, by its free ends, on the other. The denuded surfaces are now brought in apposition, and the three sutures firmly secured upon the bougie. This accomplished, the outer margins of the fissure, along the line of the skin, should be brought together by three or four inter- rupted sutures, carefully introduced, which will cause a speedy union of the skin, and materially facilitate that of the deeper parts. l^See Jig. 5.] Fig. 5. Shows the part brought together by the deep and interrupted suture. 5](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21061932_0069.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
