Cases of stenosis and atresia of the female genital canal / by James R. Chadwick.

  • Chadwick, James R. (James Read), 1844-1905.
Date:
1886
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Cases of stenosis and atresia of the female genital canal / by James R. Chadwick. 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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    fi opmentof septic organisms in the cavity and the conse- quent infection of the system. The method described would seem to have perfectly iulliled its purpose. VAGINAL STENOSIS. Case III. Mrs. S. M. L., aged twenty-one years, nine months, married ; applied at my dispensary on June 7, 1880, complaining of indigestion, backache and dyspareunia. She began to menstruate at the age of seventeen years, had always been regular, had had considerable flow for four or five days with but little pain. Examination at this time only revealed a short vagina and the absence of any vaginal portion of the uterus: an opening, supposed to be the external os, in the dome of the vagina admitted a fine wire, three- fourths of an inch. Per rectum the wire was found to have passed to the left side of what was evidently the