The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 86
ry for every stage of the operation from first to last. For this purpose, a small table is placed near a window admitting the sun- light. An assistant, sitting by, adjusts on the table a glass. Fig. 3, some eight or ten inches in diameter, so as to throw the rays of light into the vagina, which,… … Fig. 4 shows the speculum introduced, elevating and supporting the sphinc- ter ; also the relative position of the organs, when the patient is examined as directed; the vaginal canal being distended to its greatest capacity. Of scarifying the edges of the fistulous opening. — This was the most…
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