The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 92
mSj Treatment of Vesico- Vaginal Fistula. [Jan. Fig. 9, 5, shows the needle armed and passed as directed : the spear-point having emerged at its proper place on the distal side of the fistula, is sup- ported by the blunt hook, a, over which it rests. As soon as this is accomplished, the blunt hook… … larly if the parts are too contracted, or the light not good. In this case, the needle should be pushed an eighth or a fourth of an inch further on, and then retracted as much, when a little loop of ligature will be left, into which the tenaculum can be passed. (Fig. 10.) After this, the needle is…
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