Identifier: clinicalgyncolog00keat (find matches)
Title: Clinical gyncology, medical and surgical
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Keating, John M. (John Marie), 1852-1893 Coe, Henry Clark, 1856-
Subjects: Women Gynecology
Publisher: Philadelphia, Lippincott
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

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Paring the edges of the fistula Fig. 27.
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Tying the sutures. DISEASES OF THE URETHRA, BLADDER, AND URETERS. 865 The vaginal tampon is removed on the second day; sooner if offensiveor soiled with urine. An enema is given to move the bowels on the thirdday, and the sutures are removed on the eighth day. The patient shouldremain in the recumbent position for at least two or three weeks. VESICAL CALCULI. Stone in the bladder is a far less common affection of the female thanof the opposite sex. This is accounted for mainly by the greater facilitywith which small stones are expelled through the female urethra. They are oftener of the phosphatic variety than in the male. Foreignbodies from without frequently form the nucleus for urinary deposits.Roughened areas of the bladder-wall are liable to become incrusted, andsuch incrustations may serve as the starting-point of calculous formations.The formation of calculi is thus frequently observed after operation forvesico-vaginal fistula. The stone usually lies free in the cavity of thebl

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