Horror at an old style medical practice for women

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Got told about a device MD's use to use before hystorectomies to

help women with prolapse of the uterus. Been seeing that term in the

herb books but ignorant of what the problem was. As was explained to

me after having 30 kids the uterus would sometimes want to slip out.

To stop this, some idiot invented a tubelike device called a prissin

or prussin, something like that, that would fit up the vagina and stay

in there as a mechanical support for the uterus. Of course it wasn't

always fitted properly and sometimes some side effects would occur

such as gangarene. The old medical books would talk about the

importance of not deflowering the female organs blah, blah, blah. I

was horrified at the sound of it, ignorant barbarians was my unspoken

thought, and no wonder people accepted hysterectomies when they were

invented. Part of the horror I felt was there are herbal treatments

for that and have been all along. It is saddening to think how much

useless suffering women were subjected to due to ignorance. That also

gets me wondering how many hysterectomies are given that could be

avoided herbally. Not my department though.