The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 91
ervals; the two outside ones passing within a fourth of an inch of the angles of the fistula. The middle one is first ap- plied. The needle, armed with a silk thread, is entered about half an inch anterior to the scarified edge of the fistula; pushed deeply into the vesical septum, without… … be made to appear on the vaginal surface. For this purpose a blunt hook (Fig. 9, a) is placed flatwise, just beyond the spot at which we in- tend the needle to come out, thus making a fixed point for it, when it passes with great ease.
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