Excerpt from Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal, 1876-7, Vol. 16 The Device here described consists in passing the thread or wire through the edges of the fistula. Allowing the edges of the holes to cicatrize and then pare the edges of the fistula and tight en the sutures. The object of allowing the needle holes to cica trize is to prevent the thread tearing out when the sutures are drawn tight. As the inventor of this ingenious device does not report a case illustrating its use in vesico-vaginal fistula, we pre sume his knowledge of its merits in such cases is purely theoreti cal, practically he would find that the small needle holes, whose edges were cicatriz'ed, would give him as much trouble as the original fistula, he would only be multiplying his difficulties, in most cases. In an operation for staphyloraphy, it might be of value, but we think that the section of the tendons of the levator and tensor palati muscles would obviate all difficulty in most cases from the thread tearing out. 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.