On the use and abuse of pessaries / by George Granville Bantock.

  • Bantock, George Granville, 1837-1913.
Date:
1878
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Credit: On the use and abuse of pessaries / by George Granville Bantock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    course of ovariotomy, and with the same result of immediate relapse. Dr. Beigel examined a large number of flexions in the dead body and was surprised at the persistence of the flexion. It has been asserted that the uterine wall is thinner on the concave aspect of the flexion. Dr. Beigel contradicts this statement in the most positive manner, and adds, that the only rational treatment is that by intra-uterine stem.* That instruments have been abused no one is more ready to admit than I. I plead guilty to this charge, but only in the pursuit of knowledge, and in my endeavours to cure those who have com¬ mitted themselves to my care, and in blind defer¬ ence to the teaching of authority. But my failures have served to reveal the rocks ahead, and while I fearlessly assert that in no case have I left the patient worse than I found her, I can equally affirm that in the vast majority I have been able to render signal service. I will not be uncharitable enough to suggest a probable cause for the unreasoning wholesale de¬ nunciation indulged in by some, but leave it to my readers to furnish their own explanation. 94 Mount Street, Grosvenor Square. * Tram. Obst. Soc., London, (May 2nd, 1877) p. 132.