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
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[1861]
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    facilitate cauterizations of the uterus. It is a light, small elastic forceps, the jaw of which is especially adapted for holding caustic either parallel, perpendicularly, or obliquely to the handle of the instrument. Over the handle slides a ring of elastic india-rubber, which acts as an ever-ready spring, and is capable of being removed, increased, or diminished at pleasure. This instru- ment will be found exceedingly convenient for use as a dressing forceps, to cleanse diseased surfaces from mucosities with a bit of lint or cotton, prior to any topical application of caustics or astrin- gents.] We prefer this instrument to the urethral porte- caustic of Lallemand, which Kiwisch recommends for the uterus. Its great size often renders its in- troduction difficult, and the sharp edges of the piston, after the canula is withdrawn, might easily injure the mucous membrane and induce a haemorrhage, so as completely to annul the effects of the cauteriza- tion. [In order to pass solid caustic more freely into the uterine cavity, and without any danger of its breaking and leaving its fragments within, we have caused an instrument to be made by Mr. Tiemann, consisting of three springing blades of steel, galva- nized with gold, cone-shaped, and closing at the extremity, so as to enable the solid stick to be Fig. 19.—Gard- ner's intra-ute- rine porte-caustic. freeiy passed, when the cauterization is effected by the sides of the stick in the os, or in any fistulous ulcers.] Bibliography.—Hourmann, Recherches sur les injections dans la cavité de l'utérus. Bull, de thér. t. xix., p. 60.—Vidal, Essai sur un traitement méthodique de quelques maladies de la matrice par les injections intra-vaginales et intra-utérines. Taris, 1840, and l'Union médicale, 1850. No. 66.—Duparcque, Gaz. méd. 1840. No. 19.—Oldham, Lond. Gaz. Febr. 1847.—Strohl, Sur le traitement des affections de la matrice par des injections, etc. Gaz. de Strasbourg, viii., 10.—Olkoli, Un mot sur les injections utérines. Presse méd. belge, 1853. No. 37.—Philipeacx, Traité pratique de la cautérisatiou. Paris. 1856, p. 542 et seq. Another method for the application of caustics to the intra-
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