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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![rectly upwards if retroflexed, while the ring merely ■aws the cervix backwards. It is therefore specially Idicated when any considerable retroflexion exists, ae mode of introduction of the instrument is the same that of the sigmoid pessary (see p. 78), but its shape nders it rather more difficult to hook the posterior nb backward over the cervix into the posterior cul- :-sac. In proportion to this difficulty is the security ig. 47.— The Author's Lever Pessary for Prolapse, in position. its retention. With this, as with every other pes- ry, it is essentia] that it should be removed at retmlar tervals, in order that it may be cleaned and the state parts observed. If the uterus be replaced, and the cervix maintained its normal level by any of these pessaries, it is obvious at, if the organ be elongated, it must, for the time](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2042050x_0139.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
