Sentence examples for pessary from inspiring English sources

The female equivalent was known as the pessary, which was applied externally so as to place pressure on the end of the urethra.

I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion…Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption; and, further from the seduction of females or males, of freemen and slaves.

Other conservative methods of treatment, such as using a vaginal pessary to block a prolapse, have failed and doctors at the hospital believe a hysterectomy is the only option.

"Have you got an, um, pessary?" "Pessary?" She tried not to snort at the absurd term, which struck her as Midwestern, if not actually Victorian.

Among the most famous is Mary McCarthy's novel "The Group," from 1963, with its scene of a humiliated girl sitting in Washington Square Park with her contraceptive "pessary".

Miriam thought of the word "pessary" again.

Mathematical modelling suggests that if microbicides were used by only 20% of women at risk, and were used only half the time, this would still prevent more than 2.5m infections over three years.The first microbicides may prove a little awkward to use, since they would come in the form of gels or foaming pessaries that would need to be applied not more than a few hours before a sexual encounter.

Many chemicals act as spermicides; one of the most widely used is a detergent, nonoxynol-9, found in most foams, pessaries, and dissolving vaginal tablets.

This can be in the form of pessaries, a vaginal ring, or creams.

One Package of Japanese Pessaries — a test case engineered by Sanger — and removed contraception from the category of obscenity.

Then Sanger or Byrne met with seven or eight at once to show them how to use pessaries.