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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![the pressure of the anterior vaginal Avail downward*! and backward upon the central bridge can only bee counteracted by forces acted upward and forward upon i both extremities. Accordingly it will be found that, . at any rate when there is any considerable resistance too overcome, both ends rest against the posterior vaginal ] wall, and the vaginal entrance is thus blocked. An i intelligent patient, however, may sometimes be taught I to remove and replace the pessary herself, and this obi] jection is then obviated. Fig. 34.—Thomas's Auteversion Pessary, closed for introductioiflj Dr. Thomas recommends for auteversion the pessarwj shown in Figs. 34 and 35, consisting of a HodgeJ Fig. 35.—Thomas's Auteversion Pessary, in position for use. pessary, to which is attached a movable bow. Tot introduction, this bow is closed up, so as to lie ilp contact with the upper limb (as in Fig. 34), and carried to and just under the cervix; then, by the index](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2042050x_0110.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
