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Title: A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment ..
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Eaton, Morton Monroe. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Women
Publisher: New York, Philadelphia, Boericke & Tafel (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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press upwards. We now insert a repositor, as represented, with a cup-shaped extremity (see Fig. 59), to fit over the inverted fun-dus, with a handle about fifteen inches long. This may bemade of hard rubber or hard wood turned into proper shape,or an old-fashioned wood stethoscope may be used, if noth-ing better can be conveniently obtained. Dr. White hasinvented a similar apparatus, with a spiral spring attached tothe handle to press against the body of the operator. (SeeFig. No. 59.) With this repositor we continue to makesteady pressure, still maintaining the grasp of the handaround the mass as high up as possible. Now, expand the thumb and index finger as widely aspossible, thereby dilating the cervix by pressing against the INVERSION OF THE UTERUS. 573 vaginal wall at its junction with the uterus. Thus, by ex-panding the ring through which the fundus has to pass, andcompressing and forcing up the mass with the hand and theelevator we gradually return it within trie os. We should
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Fig. No. 59.—Whites Uterine Repositor. now have at hand a smooth, round piece of hard rubber, aninch in diameter and about fifteen inches in length. Thisinsert into the cervix, and carry the fundus before it till itjumps away from the pressure, as it will when almost rein-stated. After the fundus is within the os, we may sometimescomplete the operation with a finger carried up into the cer-vix ; but often the finger is not long enough, and we can notin this way exert the force we desire, and which is foundto be necessary to complete the turning. Prof. Emmet rec-ommends stitching the os together when the restoration isso far accomplished as to get the mass into the os uteri incases which make it desirable to discontinue the anaestheticon account of the length of time consumed in the operation,in order to retain what advantage he has gained to start on 574 EATON ON DISEASES OF WOMEN. at his next attempt.* I believe if we have the round ele-vator I have just described at hand, of a siz

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