On a new treatment of chronic metritis : and especially of endometritis : with intra-uterine chemical galvano-cauterizations / by Georges Apostoli ; translated by A. Lapthorn Smith.

  • Apostoli, Georges, 1847-1900
Date:
1888
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Credit: On a new treatment of chronic metritis : and especially of endometritis : with intra-uterine chemical galvano-cauterizations / by Georges Apostoli ; translated by A. Lapthorn Smith. 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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    slid forward, and which no longer protects the vagina in its entirety. 5th. You will then attach the reophore to the intra-uterine exciter, taking care to do so sufficiently firmly that it may not become detached during the seance, and thus cause a shock which would result from the interruption of the current. The fixing of the wire should be accomplished by means of a slight twist of the peg (which is at the end of the conducting wire) into the hole which is prepared for it in the handle of the sound. You must not bring too much force to bear upon it, as you might displace the in- strument in the uterus and wound it by pressing on it. C.—The Operation, Properly Speaking. Everything being ready to commence, the opera- tion may be divided into three stages. These are: the initial stage, the middle, and the end. 1st. The initial stage.—(A) You must not begin to turn on the current until all pain or sensibility re- sulting from the passage of the sound shall have totally disappeared. A few seconds of waiting are sometimes necessary for this purpose. (B) This done, the hand which holds the sound steady will move no more; in order to give it more security it is better to leave the conducting finger in the vagina, where, if we are sufficiently sure of our- selves, we hold the sound by the handle; the dorsal
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