SYRINGE NOZZLE AS A CARRIER OF INFECTION.

Abstract

It is well known that foreign bodies introduced into the vagina and uterus are liable to carry infection to the pelvic organs. The male organ of generation, infected with gonorrhea, the unclean digit, the speculum, the tenaculum, the sound, the dilator, and even the tampon, are credited with the causation of diseases of the female generative organs. A prominent gynecologist has gone so far as to ascribe the supposed greater prevalence of female diseases of the present day to the abuse of the mechanic treatment of uterine diseases. Whether women of the present generation are suffering in greater numbers from pelvic diseases than they did in the past is a question on which we have no sufficient data from which to draw conclusions. There is one thing, however, which probably causes more trouble than all the mechanic treatments put together, and that is the syringe nozzle. The majority of women