Treatment of dysmenorrhoea and sterility resulting from anteflexion of the uterus / by Thos. Addis Emmet.

  • Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Treatment of dysmenorrhoea and sterility resulting from anteflexion of the uterus / by Thos. Addis Emmet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The proper time to perform the operation presented is di- rectly after the cessation of the catamenia. The patient, having been prepared by an evacuation of the bowels the night before, is placed in position, the speculum introduced, and the uterus brought into view. The anterior lip is firmly seized by a tenaculum, and the posterior one divided in the median line to the proper point by a single cut of the scissors. A small sound, properly flexed, is then passed to the fundus, and the blade of the universal-jointed uteritome is introduced, with its cutting edge backward, to divide the triangular space, A, B, C, formed by the inner blade of the scissors moving in an arc of a circle. The sound is still retained in situ, and, on reversing the blade, it is passed alongside as a guide, cutting the constricted point from C to D, and enlarging the passage, if necessary, as it is withdrawn. This completes the operation.