RESTORATION OF THE PELVIC STRUCTURES AFTER INJURY.Read in the Section of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women, at the Forty-second Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, held at Washington, D. C., May 5-8, 1891.

Abstract

1.<i>The Cervical Lesions of the Uterus</i>.—Little is required to add to the completeness of our knowledge to the present date, upon the surgical treatment of lacerations of the cervix uteri. Thanks to the labors of our distinguished countrymen, the late Dr. Sims and his early associate, Dr. Emmet, of New York, the limitations and advisability of the surgical repair of the cervical tissues of the uterus are generally well understood and accepted by the profession at large, as taught in the great surgical centres of the world. The restoration of the cervical tissues after the proper refreshment is greatly facilitated by the use of the Hagerdon needle, which pierces accurately and with comparative ease the thick, firm cervical tissue. The interrupted silver wire suture, so long used by the followers of these great masters, has been most advantageously supplanted by the continuous animal suture, since this at least equally