The student's guide to the diseases of women / by Alfred Lewis Galabin.
- Galabin, Alfred Lewis, 1843-1913.
- Date:
- 1881
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The student's guide to the diseases of women / by Alfred Lewis Galabin. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![DISEASES OF WOMEN'. handle is not rotated, but the direction of the intru uterine portion is changed by means of a screw Thi sound, however, if used in the way described, is nior J convenient and quite as safe. After withdrawal of th 0 sound, the pessary may often be adjusted before thi] displacement has had time to recur. If, however flfl fundus drops back at the moment of its withdrawal I one of two methods may be used. With great caution ! either the pessary may be passed into position over tin] handle of tho sound, or restoration with the sound raajl ig. 30.—Diagram to Illustrate the Mode of Keplacuig the TJtert by the Sound. be effected while the pessary is in the vagina, thU uterus, in both cases, being held in perfect position! until the pessary is fully adjusted. There is another method of keeping a retroflexi uterus in place, which is mechanically the most perfe^H although for other reasons undesirable, and which mam be tried in some very exceptional cases if all other fl means fail. This is the use of an intra-uterine stem itim conjunction, either with a simple Hodge's pessary, oil with some vaginal support, which must not be rigidly connected with the stem. If, however, a HodgaH pessary be chosen with a posterior limb long enough i](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2042050x_0102.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
