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A NEW PRACTICAL VAGINOSCOPE FOR USE IN CHILDREN AND VIRGINS

1929; American Medical Association; Volume: 93; Issue: 18 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1001/jama.1929.27110180003009b

2376-8118

S. Levy,

Medical History and Innovations

After a careful search of the American and foreign literature to date, I have not found recorded any practical electrically illuminated vaginoscope for use in children and virgins. I am therefore presenting here my vaginoscope, with my reasons for the measurements adopted. In every female child admitted to our hospitals, infant homes and similar institutions, a vaginal (cervical) smear is made on admission, usually with a cotton tipped wooden applicator. I measured a large number of such applicators and found that they varied in size from 13 to 19 French. These measurements were the clue to the proper size caliber tube that I should use in my vaginoscope. In deciding on the proper size length of tube that I should use, I met with difficulties. Nowhere in the American literature could I find definite measurements as to the length of the child's vagina. Ballantyne 1 says, The vagina is from