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Title: Tri-State medical journal
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Ball, James Moores, 1863-1929
Subjects: Tri-State Medical Society Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis : (s.n.)
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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ncisions one and two. The denudation is completed by clipping away every fibre ofcicatricial tissue circumscribed by the the incisions. because the woman is thereby unsexed. Yet who raises his voice for thethousands of women, the functions of whose vaginas are so completely de-stroyed that the conjugal relations are rendered loathsome, and if the wo-man is at all eccentric, or her husband, she is driven into madness, andfrequently to the insane asylum. The technique of my operation is as follows: 326 Peri neo-Plasty-Mayfield. Dissecting away the scar tissues and making a lateral incision parallelwith the line of the uterus, the flaps were obtained and united over arubber catheter which was retained in situ six days. The dressing con-sisted in packing the vagina with iodoform gauze. The wound is re-dressed on the fourth day, cyst and wound washed out with 1-5000 sol.corrosive sublimate, and repeated every morning, or every other morningas the case required, and repacked with the gauze.
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FIGURE 5.. Cut five represents the operation ready for closing with sutures, the upper dark line represent-ing the great primary stitch as described heretofore. Stitches were removed on the ninth day, under an anaesthetic, andthough the wound had granulated nicely, there was still a slight openingthrough which a small amount of urine was excreted. In four weeks from the time of operation, the patient, in a fairly goodcondition, returned to tier home to wait a few months for new tissue to gen-erate for use in the next operation. April 16th, 1895, she came to the San-itarium for the second operation, which was performed on the 21st. Theflaps were obtained in about the same way as before, and united, as pre- Original Articles. 327 viously, and dressed. The next step was Trachelorraphy, which consistedin cutting with Skenes duck-bill scissors the scar tissue which hadjoined in the bi-lateral lacerations of the cervix and stitching together thelips with strong catgut ligature. The next pro

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