Woman, her diseases and remedies : a series of letters to his class / by Charles D. Meigs.

  • Meigs, Charles D. (Charles Delucena), 1792-1869.
Date:
1859
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Credit: Woman, her diseases and remedies : a series of letters to his class / by Charles D. Meigs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    retaining its firmness, which could not be expected of so thin a plate of gold. While it is lighter, it is also less costly than gold. A globe of two inches in diameter, thus formed, weighs not more than two scruples, and when polished and covered with a sufficient coating of gold, possesses properties preferable in practice to one of pure gold, inasmuch as the lighter an instrument of this kind is, the less objec- tionable is it. It would be difficult to make such an instrument that should be lighter than one of Warner's globes. I have often told him and his workmen, that if they could make one as light as a soap- bubble, it would be the very perfection of the instrument. I have heard of doctors who made them of lead—one might as well use a brickbat or paving stone. The very thought of such a thing is fit to give one a fit of tenesmus. Mr. Warner's silver globes gilt are perhaps as nearly perfect as they shall ever be. The same material is employed in the fabrication of the discus and the ring, the elytroid and the horseshoe pessary, as well as the olive of the stem pessary; from out of the whole great number and variety of which you can select, according to your opinion of the indication. Mr. Warner could readily supply your wants in his line through the various Express companies established here for parcels delivery. Should you have occasion, therefore, to use any of his instruments, your letters, with description of the kind of instrument required, would probably meet his prompt attention. It would be only necessary to order a globe pessary of one and three-quarter inch diameter, or two inches, or two and one-eighth, &c, or a flat pessary, or a ring, &c. There are few towns in the United States that are not reached, almost with the rapidity of the mail, by the Express lines of Adams & Co., Harnden & Co., &c. &c. The object to be gained in employing a pessary, is the elevation of the uterus to its proper level in the pelvis, and the maintaining of it in situ naturalt Many of my friends prefer the discus or the horse- shoe, the ring, &c. The late Dr. Dewees, invariably, I believe, made use of the discus, commonly in this city called Dewees's pessary; and his deserved reputation as a practitioner gave to the instrument of his choice a great vogue, so that multitudes of them were made and sold. Dr. Physiek's Pessary.—The equally distinguished Professor, the late Dr. Physick, who seemed to me, in his lifetime, almost never to be in error in any surgical or medical indication, as invariably pre- ferred the globe, very generally known as Dr. Physiek's globe pessary. In a conversation I had with him, some years before his lamented death (such men ever die too soon), he told me, that while he was