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Title: Gynecology :
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Graves, William Phillips, 1870-1933
Subjects: Gynecology Genital Diseases, Female Women Gynecology
Publisher: Philadelphia : Saunders
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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sutures are tied in themiddle line, and serve to compress the internal orifice, as can be plainly testedby drawing out and again inserting the bent sound. The sutures thus placedare reinforced by two or three other sutures of linen, which pick up firm unyield-ing fibrous tissue well up on the sides of the urethra. The operation for cystocele is then continued in the usual manner, provisionbeing made to give a little extra tightness at the point corresponding to theneck of the bladder. When finished the appearance is like that seen in Fig. 254. OPERATIONS ON THE VAGINA 617 ANTERIOR COLPOPLASTY (CLARKS TECHNIC) In the operation of anterior colpoplasty just described the operative fieldis exposed by simple denudation of the vaginal mucous membrane. Anothertype of operation for cystocele consists in separating completely the vaginalmembrane from the bladder wall.. Of these two methods we prefer the former,as it is more rapid and involves less danger from bleeding or injury to the bladder
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