The cure of epilepsy and of inveterate uterine displacements / by William Alexander.

  • Alexander, William, 1844-1919.
Date:
1882
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Credit: The cure of epilepsy and of inveterate uterine displacements / by William Alexander. 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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    A NEW METHOD OF TREATING INVETERATE AND TROUBLESOME DISPLACEMENTS OF THE UTERUS. The cure of uterine displacements by operative methods is never entertained in cases where the malposition is recent and can be rectified by reposition and resL or by instru- mental appliances that do not distress the patient. There are, besides the cases included in the above-mentioned cate- gory, a great number of others whose lives are a torment to them by reason of the inefficiency or irritation of pessaries. The fact of every gynaecologist of any note using a pessary or pessaries of his own invention proves that all but the most recent and untried ones are often ineflPectual. Many women, again, have a natural dislike to wearing such instruments, and to the periodical re-adjustments which their use necessitates; and, although the mis- fortune of displacement is in them permanently palliated by the pessary, they would willingly undergo any reason- ably safe operative procedure that would be likely to release them from manipulations so distasteful to them. Such an operation is that which I now intend to describe. Before I thought of it, I performed the only operation hitherto described for prolapse of the uterus, in which the vaginal canal is contracted and the perineum fortified by means of plastic operations that are as numerous as the operators themselves. Although these operations do good in a certain number of cases, their success depends on the absence of all dilating causes. The external dilating causes