The mucous lining is so thrown
into folds that its thickness in relation to the peritoneal layer is
considerable. Because of this, the tube when tied alone is brittle, and
a ligature applied to it will very easily cut through, and either allow
of reunion of the severed ends or leave a patent stump. In a recorded
case in which pregnancy occurred after each tube was ligatured in two
places, and then divided with a knife, a patent stump was no doubt left.
In order to obviate this danger the peritoneal layer must be opened, and
the mucous membrane, which is quite brittle and easily removed, must be
torn away for about one quarter of an inch. A simple cat-gut or silk
ligature lightly tied would then be sufficient to insure complete and
permanent occlusion.
Nature often performs this operation herself, with the inevitable and
irrevocable result, lifelong sterility, with no tittle of positive
evidence during life of its occurrence.
Here are a few examples:--A young married woman has a miscarriage; it is
not severe, and she is indiscreet enough to be about at her duties in a
day or two, but within a few days or so she finds she must return to
bed, with feverishness and pelvic pain. Before a month is past she is up
and quite herself again.
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