The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 286
most necessarily works out of posi- tion ; the curvature of the posterior bar upward takes away the sharp angles behind, and the centre of the bar resting directly behind the lower portion of the body of the uterus, allows it to hang over it suspended by its vaginal at- tachment, without any undue… … pressure from the urethra, a matter of immense importance, upon which de- pends the ability of many patients to tolerate the pessary at all. The accom- panying cuts show as well as any diagram can the modification ; a and b rep- resenting a lateral and oblique view of the original Hodge pessary,…
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