The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 124
will look toward the perineum and will allow of the depression of the uterine sound in cases of anteversion and anteflexion of the uterus, which is always, in these cases, a desideratum, and cannot be accomplished with the great majority of metallic instruments, and not at all when a glass one is… … from that of all other specula. This shape is difficult to describe, and can be best understood by reference to the figures. This form I have found of great advantage where it is desired to pack the vagina, as there is not the same disposition to pull the material out when the speculum is withdrawn…
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