Outlines of the diseases of women / by John Phillips.

  • Phillips, John.
Date:
1897
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    quently gives rise to extensive sloughing, and must therefore be considered dangerous (Fig. 72). 3. Operative. 1. Those operations which have for their object the narrow- ing of the calibre of the vaginal canal. i.e. Elytrorrhaphy, where redundant portions of vaginal mucous membrane are excised and the edges brought together. Fig. 72. Zwancke's pessary. The dotted outline indicates its shape during introduction ; the shaded portion its appearance in situ. 2. Those which have for their object the addition of sus- pensory power to the ligaments. i.e., Alexander-Adams operation for shortening the round ligaments. This is performed by making an incision over the external abdominal rings and pulling the ligaments through ; they are then firmly stitched into their new position ; and Hysteropexy where the abdomen is opened and the uterus sutured to the posterior surface of the anterior abdominal It may be said generally of all operative measures that they may succeed temporarily, but the author has never met with a case in which recurrence did not take place before the lapse ot two years. LITERATURE. Granville Bantock.-On the Treatment of Rupture of the Perineum, imme- diate and remote, 1878. _ Matthews Duncan.— Papers on tlie Female Perineum, 1879. J^hn PMUips.-''Plastic Gynecological Operations. (Allbutfs **. of Laws™ tal -'Ona new Method of Operation for Repair of the Female Perineum.'' (Trans. Obstet. Soc, London, 1879, vol. xxi. p. 292.)