The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 149
r minute, and would perforate any hard calcareous mass with great rapidity and with very slight pressure. To secure a firm grasp as well as for crushing the stone easily after per- foration, strong lithotomy forceps, as shown in the cut below, were made with separable blades to be locked after… … Operation — On Oct. 19th the patient was etherized and placed upon her right side, with hips elevated and thighs strongly flexed. After the introduction of Sim's speculum, I exposed the stone by an incision in the median line of the anterior wall of the vagina. The opening was four centimetres in…
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