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Title: Annual of the universal medical sciences
Year: 1895 (1890s)
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Subjects: Medicine -- Directories
Publisher: Philadelphia, F.A. Davis
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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in the vagina, was removed by Summa, of St. Louis, jf.^^ It wascovered with calcareous deposits and lay imbedded in a deep groove.The patient had never observed ill effects from its presence. Saunders,of Glen Ellyn, 111., JfJ.removed quite a large sponge from tlicvagina of a widow, aged 40, who had introduced it some twomonths previously and forgotten it. Injuries to the Vagina.—Two cases of laceration of thevagina are reported by Schiilein, of Bcn-lin. nilL Tl one of thecases the laceration followed coitus ; the other was produced byfalling upon a pointed fence, one of the points penetrating intothe rectum. Ostermayer „)), reports a case of rupture of thevaginal cu.l-de-sac, caused by the patient falling and striking the9,bdomen against the corner of a step. Two cases of laceration of Vagina. ) DISEASES OF VAGINA AND EXTERNAL GENITALS. H-45 .. 101 Feb the vagina following labor are reported by Tuttle, of New York.Watkins, of Chicago, ^^,^^91 believes that both walls of the vagina
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Fig. 2. Operation for Laceration of Vaginal Wall. (Memphis Journal of the Medical Sciences.) are often simultaneously ruptured by the passage of the child,but that the rupture of the anterior wall is not often recognized, H-46 BALDY. (TSo* because it is not so apparent. He classifies the anterior lacerationsas unilateral and bilateral. For the resulting urethrocele and cys-tocele he proposes a lateral operation, which he has performedtwenty times, with good results. He begins his denudation at apoint to the side of the urethra, near its meatus, and extends italong the antero-lateral walls of the vagina to a point beyond theprolapse, the breadth being dependent upon the extent of theurethrocele and cystocele. The denudation may be on one or bothsides, according as the laceration is unilateral or bilateral. Whenthe denuded surface extends beyond the neck of the bladder, hefastens tlie cervix to the end of tlie specidum by means of asuture, so that the cervix may be drawn upward and back

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