Excerpt from The Kansas City Medical Journal: June, 1875 I believe the water much more manageable and powerful than the air apparatus. By it the organ can be restored immediately and the instrument removed. It should never be introduced into the rectum, but placed in the vagina, for obvious anatomical rea sons. The patient should never be encumbered with that pest of gynecology, a pessary. It may be urged that there is danger of dilating the 03, and thereby inducing miscarriage. Such a result did not follow in the cases reported by Dr. Playfair nor in my own. Indeed, a glance at the anatomical and physiological points involved, is sufficient to show that such a result can not follow where the organ is replaced and the instrument removed at once. 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.