Combined gynecological operations / by George M. Edebohls.

  • Edebohls, George M. (George Michael), 1853-1908.
Date:
1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Combined gynecological operations / by George M. Edebohls. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    own work at one and a half hours, and have but on two or three occa- sions needed more time than this, no matter how many combined opera- tions were required. Fig. 1. Edebohls’ operating-table. Top of table. A, metal frame; B, polished glass plate for bead and shoulders; C, ditto, for body]: D, metal surface ; E, trough ; JV, holes for foot-supports. Fig. 2. Table, complete, with foot-supports (If) and ankle-straps {L). To do combined operations well within the time limits of safe antes- thesia, requires, in addition to the necessary degree of operative skill and dexterity, sufficient and efficient assistance, a perfected technique of the various operations attempted, and an instrumentarium suitable to rapid work. Perhaps, then, I may be pardoned a brief description of the technique of the various typical operations entering into combinations, as I have practised them, before giving attention to the combinations themselves. All of the various operations now to be described are performed upon