A practical treatise on the diseases of the sexual organs of women / by F.W. von Scanzoni ... Tr. from the French of Drs. H. Dor and A. Socin, and annotated ... by Augustus K. Gardner.

Friedrich Wilhelm Scanzoni von Lichtenfels

Date:: [1861]

Credit: A practical treatise on the diseases of the sexual organs of women / by F.W. von Scanzoni ... Tr. from the French of Drs. H. Dor and A. Socin, and annotated ... by Augustus K. Gardner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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$the li^ht being thrown in by the concave surface of the extre- mities. Over the entire external surface of the blades a thin elastic rubber cone is passed which effectually shields the folds of the vagina from the pinching of the closing blades. A great improvement is made by dispensing with the unwieldy and inconvenient handles, and in substituting for them the screw, which furthermore has the advantage of holding the instrument either opened or closed, as it is placed.] Fi.:. 7.—TiemaEn's Improved Speculum. We will remark, in pass] • ise where the actual cautery is necessarv. we use instruments of horn, of yery ^reat calibre, those of glass not being able to serve for reasons easily understood. Finally, when it is important to embrace in a single coup J\e>7 a large portion of the vaginal walls, we recommend the speculum with many blades which can be I ar the ; the opera: >r. <% Fig. S.—Speculum with Pour Movable Branches. To obtain the great ble profit from the application of the speculum, a long continued practice in the use of this in- strument is absolutely necessary. We think it will not be use- less to describe here, in a few words, the method which seems to us the most snrely conducive to this result.$