SOME EXPERIENCES WITH GAS INSUFFLATION OF THE FALLOPIAN TUBES

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In the dispensary of the New York Post-Graduate Hospital, service of Dr. H. D. Furniss, we had, from April, 1921, to April, 1925, more than 5,000 new patients, about nine tenths of whom were married. Less than 600 of these women had been married one year or more, and had never conceived, but only 199 consulted us directly or indirectly because of sterility. There were, further, twenty-one patients who had had one or two children or miscarriages dating back from five to sixteen years and who now wanted to become pregnant again. On ninety-four of these 220 patients, 115 carbon dioxid insufflations of the tubes (Rubin tests) were made, up to four on the same patient, with the result that twenty-nine women were found to have closed tubes and sixty-five open tubes. This may seem a very small number of gas insufflations of the tubes in view of the large

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