INFLATED INDIA-RUBBER PESSARIES.

Jaundice following acetarsol pessaries.

Miss X, a machinist, aged 19 years, consulted her doctor on 8. 11. 50 because she had a whitish vaginal discharge. Acetarsol pessaries were prescribed, and she was told to insert one pessary into the vagina daily. On 11. 11. 50 she complained of shivering, fever, oedema of the eyelids, lips, and face, and chemosis. There was a morbilliform eruption on the trunk, forearms, and arms. On 14. 11. 5...

Induction of labour using prostaglandin E2 pessaries.

The blanket use of prostaglandin E2 pessaries, as reported by Mr J H Shepherd and his colleagues (14 July, p 108), does concern me. While they did draw attention to the need for fetal monitoring in such patients, I wonder how satisfactorily this can be achieved, especially in relatively high-risk cases, under such circumstances and whether such monitoring could not be better achieved by direct...

Transverse posterior cervicoisthmic rupture after gemeprost pessaries for termination.

Drs S J VINE and A PRYS-DAVIES and Mr J F PEARSON (University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff CF4 4XN) write: A 16 year old woman was admitted for termination of her first pregnancy at 16 weeks' gestation. A gemeprost (16,16-dimethyl-trans-A2 prostaglandin El methyl ester) 1 mg pessary was inserted into the posterior fomix every three hours until a total dose of 5 mg had been given. The cervix remai...

The Use and Abuse of Pessaries

"Use and Abuse of Pessaries": A Criticism

Sir,?The February number of your journal contains an article on the " Use and Abuse of Pessaries." On reading it occurred to me to look back of the first monograph on the " Use and Abuse of Pessaries" by Granville Bantock in 1SS4. The result was astonishing. Loudon 1884 and Calcutta 1914 seemed to have exactly the same gynecologic.il standpoints. I cannot agree with thisIn 30 years we surely ha...