Identifier: diagnosistreatmecros (find matches)
Title: The diagnosis and treatment of diseases of women
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Crossen, Harry Sturgeon, 1869-
Subjects: Genital Diseases, Female Gynecology Gynecology Women Generative organs, Female
Publisher: St. Louis : Mosby
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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med surfaces separated. 5. To support the pelvic organs. Tampons are much used for holding medicine against the cervix and vaginalvault. If the medicine is in solution, for example, one of the glycerine prepar-ations, the end of the tampon is dipped into the solution and then applied to thevaginal vault and left there, to be removed by the patient after twelve to twenty-four hours. If the medicine is a powder, it is dusted freely about the cervix andsome of it is placed on the end of the tampon, which is introduced as before. When used to occlude the vagina after an operation, the gauze or cotton is simplya surgical dressing, the same as when applied to an external wound. The gauzeor cotton may be simply sterile or it may be impregnated with some antiseptic, asin bichloride gauze, iodoform gauze, etc. 326 GYNECOLOGIC TREATMENT When gauze or cotton is used to check hemorrhage it should first be wet in someantiseptic solution and then squeezed as dry as possible before being packed into
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Fig. 450. Preparation of Tampons, a. A piece of cotton of the required size with a strong string tied aboutthe middle and also a loop tied. b. The same, with the ends folded up preparatory to receiving powder in theliollow formed there or to being dipped into an application-solution, c. Another satisfactory way of making atampon. The piece of cotton is folded and the ends are tied together and the string looped, d. A small bowlcontaining tampons ready for use. the vagina. Used in this way it makes a much more effective hemostatic thanwhen used perfectly dry. USE OF TAMPON-CAPSULES 327 For keeping inflamed surfaces separated, tampons of cotton or gauze-strips areused in the various forms of vaginitis. To support the uterus or hold it in position, dry gauze or cotton or wool is used.Wool has more spring in it than cotton or gauze, consequently a wool tamponis the best in cases where only support is required. Sometimes the wool tamponirritates the vagina, in which case it may be covered

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