Rush Medical College - Pulse Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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be CBQnecoIogicaI Iinic rl A HIS clinic was inaugurated by Dr. Etheridge in ' 1889, when he was elected to the chair of 9 24 V Gynecology, and since that time has formed a IK, g '59 A I distinctive feature of the teaching in that great P branch of healing. Properly speaking, it is a Gynecological Surgical Clinic. and in it every year are performed almost every surgical procedure for the relief of diseases peculiar to woman. A prominent feature of the clinic is the large number of laparotomies, which is the largest of any clinic in America, comprising every operation on the uterus and append- ages from Czesarian section to simple hysterorraphy. Scarcely a clinic goes by without an abdominal section, and several clinics have seen three, While on occasions the time has been too short to operate on the waiting fourth. Lacerated perinei and cervices, carcinomata, hstulze, prolapsus uteri, endometritis, metritis, receive their proper operative treatment, and many minor operations are demonstrated, the knowledge of which is indispensable to the general practitioner. Not only the operations, but the antiseptic preparations, are thoroughly and exhaustively discussed, the history of each case pre- sented, and all the technique of dressing, the treatment of post- operation complications and sequelae, the removal of sutures, and subsequent precautionary measures are described and explained. DR. L. C. NVEEKs. +7

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