Excerpt from Archives of Medicine, Vol. 9: A Bi-Monthly Journal; Devoted to Original Communications on Medicine, Surgery, and Their Special Branches The method of injecting the iodine through a cylindrical speculum is to be recommended as a means of saving the vagina and vulva from the unavoidable contact with the fluid if the latter is simply injected into the uterus under guidance of the finger. In the present case, finding that I could not pass the nozzle of the syringe quite to the fundus through the speculum, I first inserted the syringe and then passed the speculum over it. Breisky: Treatment, of puerperal hemorrhage; Volkmann's Klin. Vortrage, No. 14, 1871, p. 108. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.