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Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-12-23

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 9781334706509

Excerpt from The New York Medical Journal, 1865, Vol. 1 My predecessor, Dr. J. Marion sims, after a number of ope rations in the hospital for the relief of this condition, finally abandoned the different methods recommended for partial occlusion of the vagina. Where the canal was narrowed by uniting the edges of an ellipse (formed by removing the mucous membrane from the base of the bladder, ) a failure generally resulted, except when the vagina was short, as in advanced life. It was demonstrated, by bringing together in the axis of the vagina two parallel bands, extending from near the outlet to the neck of the uterus, that a great advance had been obtained. But the relief was only a temporary one. The surface turned in, and gradually insinuated itself sufficiently between the neck of the bladder and the septum thus formed, to repro duce finally the original difficulty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.