On uterine tents made from the dried stem of the laminaria digitata / by J.G. Wilson.

  • Wilson, J. G. (James George)
Date:
[between 1800 and 1899]
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Credit: On uterine tents made from the dried stem of the laminaria digitata / by J.G. Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON UTERINE TENTS MADE FROM THE DRIED STEM OF THE LAMINARIA DIGITATA. By J. G. WILSON, M.D., F.R.S.E., P.R.C.S.E., Fellow Of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons; Lecturer on Midwifery^ Anderson's University^ ■ Glasgow; Physician-Accoucher to the Glasgow Lying-in Hospital; Member of the Obstetrical Societies of London^ Edinburgh, &c. dtc. (Reprintedfrom the '-'‘Medical Times and Gazetted) . It is now more than a year ago since Dr. Sloan, of Ayr, first directed the attention of the Profession to the dried stem of sea tangle as a substitute for tents in ordinary or common use. Since then, through the hindness of Dr. Sloan, I have had ample opportunities of testing the value of such tents in dilating the os and cavity of the cervix uteri as an aid to diagnosis and treatment in certain affections of that organ. My experience of these tents has been wholly limited and confined to their employment for effecting this purpose—the cases in which they were used being precisely of that class and character in which sponge tents had heretofore been employed. In each and every case where tried I have been m.uch satisfied with the result. The laminaria digitata (sea“girdles, tangle, sea-staff or sea-wand) is a marine plant well known to visitors to the coast; it is found in great abundance on the rocky shores of the British Islands—indeed, I may say, on almost every rock and reef throughout the world—forming, as it were, a zone or belt extending from low water mark to several feet below it. After a storm, especially towards the close of the season, the beach in the neighbourhood, of such rocks is generally thickly strewed with seaweeds, of which the tangle forms a large proportion. The tangle is readily recognised by its cylindrical stem, which varies from two to six feet in length, and which, at its upper extremity, suddenly expands into a flat, ribless, roundish-oblong fronrl, ahoiit a