Cauterization

Cauterization of the cervix due to cervical erosion sometimes causes bleeding due to trauma and should be performed after the woman has gone to the mikveh.

Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography. leBeit Yoreh 2009

Cauterization and cryotherapy both may cause narrowing of the cervical opening, which makes future Pap smears difficult to do.

OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005

Cauterization involves destroying abnormal tissue with a chemical such as silver nitrate, or with an electrically heated instrument.

OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005

For more severe cases, some physicians recommend cryosurgery or electrocautery see “Cauterization and Cryotherapy,” p.

OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005

Cauterization of the canal is part of the operation.

Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine James Sands Elliott

Cauterization, scarification, erasion and excision are variously practised; the particular method depending, in great measure, upon the extent of the disease, the part involved, and other circumstances.

Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886

Cauterization -- with nitrate of silver, with applications of pyrogallic acid in ointment or in liquor gutta-perchæ, fifteen to thirty per cent. strength, and with solutions (cautiously employed) of caustic potash, and exceptionally with the galvano-cautery.

Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886

Cauterization may be resorted to when other means have failed.

An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital. 1863

Cauterization widely round the limb of the bite with a strong solution of nitrate of silver, one drachm to the ounce, to prevent the introduction of the poison into the system by the lymphatics.

The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions Randolph Barnes Marcy 1849

Also, Ibn Hajar mentioned C. al-Kayy: Branding with Fire that Ibn Umar (r. a) used to use cautery for treating fa - (Cauterization) cial palsy.

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