Perineorrhaphy, with special reference to its benefits in slight lacerations : and a description of a new mode of operating / by Edward W. Jenks.

  • Jenks, Edward W. (Edward Watrous), 1833-1903.
Date:
1879
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Credit: Perineorrhaphy, with special reference to its benefits in slight lacerations : and a description of a new mode of operating / by Edward W. Jenks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    WITH SPECIAL BEFEBENCE TO ITS BENEFITS IN SLIGHT LAOEBATIONS, AND A DESCBIPTION OF A NEW MODE OF OPERATING.1 BY EDWARD W. JENKS, M.D., Professor of Medical aad Surgical Diseases of Women and Obstetrics in Detroit Medical College, etc. (With eight woodcuts.) k Very much lias been written of late years on perineo- vaginal surgery, and many different modes for producing the same results in the class of operations which come within this branch of surgical gynecology have been brought to the atten- tion of the profession. It is, therefore, with considerable reluctance that the following paper is presented to-night, but owing to the fact that all of my auditors are practical gyne- cologists, while the majority are eminent, and very widely known as such, I trust that the essay may at least be the means of causing a discussion upon perineo-vaginal surgery which cannot but be valuable if participated in by the distin- guished gentlemen who are here present. In 1877, the writer read a paper before the Michigan State Medical Society, entitled, “ Some of the Plastic Operations with- in the Vagina,” in which were mentioned some new procedures in the operation for laceration of the perineum, and later one of his clinical lectures was reported by Dr. Hersey for the Toledo Medical and Surgical Journal, in which brief . allusion was made to the same. Owing to the limited circulation of the Society’s Transactions, and the fact that the clinical report was a mere abstract, some of his valued gynecological friends have expressed a desire that another paper should be published, or at least that the writer’s mode of denuding the parts in plastic operations within the vagina should be given greater publicity. This would have been done at the last meeting of the American Gynecological Society but for illness, which prevented the preparation of a paper or even attendance at the meeting. 1 A paper read before the Cincinnati Obstetrical Society, Jan. 8th, 1879.