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Title: Interstate medical journal
Year: 1909 (1900s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis, : Interstate Medical Journal
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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onal sketch shows,it is made up of a glass tube with a much smaller tube (about 1 m.m. indiameter) sealed into each end. The upper tube a is the one into which themercury is forced by the pressure which is admitted through the lower tubeb. The diameter of the outer tube is so much greater than that of the tubea that a 20 m.m. rise in the latter does not lower the level in the former toany appreciable degree, hence the reading in the small tube a gives prac-tically the correct pressure and it is not necessary to read up in one limb anddown in the other, adding the two for the true reading, as in the ordinary 326 INTERSTATE MEDICAL JOURNAL U-tube manometer. I made my own from a glass irrigating tip, which is about the proper length (between 4 and 5 inches). The combination clip can be easily made by any mechanic or tinker by takingoff one of the finger discs from a good, strong spring clip and replacing it by apiece of flat metal with four lugs to hold the rubber tubing. (See sketch.) a
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Sketch of clip. The afferent tube is caught by the four lugs and held in such a position thatthe tube is compressed by any effort to open the clip. The efferent tube ispinched by the clip proper. Very sincerely, WALTER S. SUTTON.Roosevelt Hospital, N. Y. C, July 17, 1908. MONTGOMERY: ECTOPIC GESTATION 327 DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF ECTOPIC GESTATION. By E. E. Montgomery, M. D.,Professor of Gynecology in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. The occurrence in my service during the last five months of somesix cases of ectopic gestation, exhibiting phenomena rendering thediagnosis obscure, impels me to group them together for consideration.Ectopic gestation—the development of the fecundated ovum in ananomalous position—most generally occurs in some part of the Fallopiantube, and the unsuitability of this canal to continue to harbor and nourishthe developing embryo, and the manifestly dire, results of the terminationof the misplaced conception, render its early recognition of the g

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