VENTRO-FIXATION.

Ventro-Fixation of the Uterus

by experienced gynaecologists a legitimate proceeding in certain cases of malposition of tlie uterus to correct the position I)}' suturing the fundus to the anterior abdominal wall. To this procedure the term " Ventro-Fixation" has been applied by some one. The cases in which this operation was done were ; I, generally those ()f retroposition or retroversion, having symptoms of chronic endometr...

A Difficult Obstetric Case after Ventro-Fixation of the Uterus

Complete Rectal Prolapse Treated by Ventro-Fixation of the Rectum

The patient, K. D., a Hindu, aged 32, a native of Chandbali, in Orissa, came to me on September 14th, 1894, with complete prolapse of his rectum. He was a house servant by occcupation, angl he stated that four years ago he noticed a slight extrusion of the bowel on defalcation ; this steadily increased in size. He was always able to replace the prolapse and retain it till the next call to stool...

The dorso-ventro debate: in search of empirical evidence.

Identification of safe injections sites is a skill practised routinely by nurses, which, as with all nursing practice, is informed by empirical evidence. Despite this, discussion as to whether the dorsogluteal site should be eradicated from nursing practice in favour of the ventrogluteal site shows no sign of abating. Review of commonly cited evidence in this debate aimed to identify the validi...

Multimodal evidence of a rostro-caudal and ventro-dorsal organization in the dorsal premotor cortex