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Identifier: diseasesofwomenc00herm (find matches)
Title: Diseases of women. A clinical guide to their diagnosis and treatment
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Herman, G. Ernest (George Ernest), 1849-1914
Subjects: Women
Publisher: New York, W. Wood & Co.
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
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Fig. 216.—Large pressure forceps. Fig. 217.—Small pressure forceps. affects the well-being of the nurse rather than that of thepatient. If these conditions cannot be complied with in thepatients house, she had better be moved elsewhere. Thebowels should be cleared by an aperient given the night before,aided by an enema on the morning of the operation. Theparticular aperient given is unimportant. Many womenhabitually take some aperient; and if the patient thus knowsof one that suits her, that is the one to give. The patientshould take no food for six hours before the operation. Im-mediately before the patient gets on the table she should-empty the bladder. If there be any doubt about the bladderhaving been emptied a catheter should be passed. 92 DISEASES OF WOMEN. Instruments required:—A scalpel. A pair of toothed dissecting forceps—those sold asconjunctiva forceps are best.
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Fig. 218.—Wellss large ovariotomy Fig. 219. —Wellss small ovariotomy trocar. trocar. Six large pressure forceps. (Fig. 216.) Six small pressure forceps. (Fig. 217.) Two blunt hooks. Two retractors. Blunt-pointed scissors. Wellss large ovariotomy trocar, with tubing. (Fig. 218.) Wellss small ovariotomy trocar, with tubing. (Fig. 219.) OVARIOTOMY. 793 Wellss blunt-ended pedicle needle. Twelve No. 1 half-curved needles. A hank of No. 5 china twist for pedicle and wound sutures: the half-curved needles to be threaded with ligatures of No. 5 silk, eighteen inches long, two needle on each ligature.A hank of No. 1 china twist (for tying bleeding points).Six Rampleys sponge holders. (Fig. 220.)Needle-holder—Wellss, but with a clip.Sponges: two flat,twelve round small sponges; two large sponges.Keiths drainage tubes.Lawson Taits clamp (Fig. 221), or Ko- berles serre-noeud; in case you should have to amputate the uterine body. You may find the cyst so adherent to the top of the uterus tha

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