"Pessary" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... forcing down, more and more, the womb and its appendages. All that is necessary is to raise up the womb to its natural position, and use an instrument that will keep it in place. This instrument is called a pessary. This pessary is a ring or hollow cup-shaped globe, made of gold, silver, ivory, wood or gutta-percha, and is placed in the vagina or birthplace, thus supporting the womb. The cold hip bath should be used once a day, at the ...
— The Ladies Book of Useful Information - Compiled from many sources • Anonymous
... generation in normal condition. This shows diagrammatically the position of the organs if a woman were cut in two between the thighs. The rubber pessary is shown in position, slightly distending upper end of vagina (or front passage), and covering the opening into interior of womb. A suppository introduced beforehand will dissolve and occupy the dotted space above rubber pessary, ...
— Safe Marriage - A Return to Sanity • Ettie A. Rout
... or chronic inflammation of the womb, or the vagina, or both. It usually results from injuries sustained in calving or from irritation by putrid matters in connection with retained afterbirth, or from the use of some object in the vagina (pessary) to prevent eversion of the womb. Exposure to cold or other cause of disturbance of the health may affect an organ so susceptible as this at the time of parturition so as ...
— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture
... described, of the spring, E, composed of copper or other soft metal, with the pessary, for ...
— Scientific American, Vol. 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 • Various
... under the influence of sexual excitement in women, corresponded to spermatic emission, has led to the practice of masturbation on hygienic grounds. Garnier (Celibat, p. 255) mentions that Mesue, in the eighteenth century, invented a special pessary to take the place of the penis, and, as he stated, effect the due ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis |
