On the use of medicated pessaries in the treatment of uterine disease / by Thomas Hawkes Tanner.

  • Tanner, Thomas Hawkes, 1824-1871.
Date:
1863
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Credit: On the use of medicated pessaries in the treatment of uterine disease / by Thomas Hawkes Tanner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ON THE USE OP MEDICATED PESSARIES IN THE TREATMENT OF UTERINE DISEASE. By Thomas Hawkes Tanner, M.D,, ASSISTANT-PHXSICIAN FOB THE DISEASES OP WOMEN AND CHILDEEN TO E;IN&'S COLIiEaE HOSPITAL, ETC. The great value of a variety of local applications in the treatment of uterine disease seems to be insufficiently appre- ciated by the profession at large. This is somewhat strange, considering the time which has elapsed since Dr. Simpson specially directed attention to their exceeding utility. Yet it is certain that a large number of practitioners know of no agents which may be directly applied to the uterus and vagina save the various kinds of caustics and injections. The latter are certainly of great benefit in many cases; but it must be allowed that, even when properly used, they are often of only temporary service, since they cannot be kept in contact with the diseased part for more than a few minutes. The chief reason, I believe, for the non-employment of medicated pessaries has been the difiiculty of so making them that they can be efficiently applied by the patient herself. When formed of certain drugs mixed into a mass with lard and wax, they are either so soft that the sufferer cannot introduce them into the vagina; or, on the contrary, they are so hard that they fail to dissolve, and are expelled in just the same condition as that in which they were intro- duced. Although I have now employed these agents very