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Title: Minor surgical gynecology : a manual of uterine diagnosis and the lesser technicalities of gynecological practice : for the use of the advanced student and general practitioner
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Mundé, Paul F. (Paul Fortunatus), 1846-1902
Subjects: Generative organs, Female Gynecologic Surgical Procedures Gynecology Gynecology
Publisher: New York : W. Wood & company
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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Fig. 219. Pinards abdominal supporter. Pig. 220. in abdominal tumors. One of the objections to all these abdominal bandagesis that they are liable to slip up and wrinkle, unless held down to the hipsand pubes by bands passed between the thighs. These bands are eithermade of leather, or cloth, or, still better, of rubber-tubing attached before
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Fig. 221.—Reynders abdominal supporter. and behind by looped cords. Most patients object decidedly to the fric-tion and pressure of these cords, and it always takes several days for themto become used to them. If it is preferred, a broad single central bandmay be substituted for these two lateral bands. This is particularly use-ful if it is desired to exert a supporting influence over the vulva, as for theretention of prolapsus, or vaginal pessaries, or tampons, or hernia of thelabium. The supporter of Noeggerath is a useful contrivance of this kind,the central pad being attached to two bands before and behind. The por- ,1 PESSAEIES. 313 tion fitting over the vulva is generally occupied by a longitudinal pad cov-ered with oiled-silk, or rubber-cloth. The whalebone rods usually inserted in these supporters to render themstiff are liable to press into the flesh or rub against the crest of the ilium.They are therefore often unbearable, andgive so much discomfort as to be discarded,and

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