Resume of a report on position, pneumatic pressure and mechanical appliance in uterine displacements : read before the Georgia Medical Association at Savannah, April 23d, 1875 / by Henry Fraser Campbell.

  • Campbell, Henry Fraser, 1824-1891.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Resume of a report on position, pneumatic pressure and mechanical appliance in uterine displacements : read before the Georgia Medical Association at Savannah, April 23d, 1875 / by Henry Fraser Campbell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of operative gnyaecology, which could have diverted him from placing a more enduring value upon such an experience, even though it was but indirectly related to the objects of his, then, pursuit. I cannot find that he has advised the measure anywhere, as a systematic method of treatment for uterine malposition, and it is plain that neither from his writings, dating since 1852 to the present time, nor from the writings of any others, has it yet become one of the established precejits of the books. As just intimated, this valuable method has probably failed of general adoption for want of adequate presentation, as a means distinctly proposed and insisted on, for the correction of malpositions. No one, perhaps, could more clearly understand and describe the position and its results than did Dr. Sims in the advice given by him for the use of his speculum in certain surgical operations upon the womb. The following directions are condensed from his works, which I present in connection with one or two of the illustrations from my own Report in the forthcoming Transac- tions. Like the others, they are from original drawings, by my nephew and colleague, Dr. A. Sibley Campbell, of Augusta. The figure is divested of clothing, that the relaxed abdominal muscles and curved spine may be presented in proper outline. Eig. 1. THE GENU-PECTORAL POSITION. Let the patient loosen all strings and fastenings of the dress and corsets, and place herself on the bed on her knees, bending the body forward, till the head and thorax are brought down to the same plane as that on which the knees are resting, viz: the surface of the bed. The face may be turned to one side, resting in the two hands, while the elbows are thrown out widely from