Finger-Nail, Surgical Removal . . Blind-Ending Neck Of Womb (Cervix).
July 25th Woke up in a rush this morning. I was running late and It isn't decent keeping patients waiting at the out-patients clinic. There was no one waiting as I walked the short corridor to my consulting room. Soon enough they began to arrive. A young lady had a bad finger-nail and this had been so for about a year now. Very soon, I took the lady's hand and wedged a scissor blade deeply into the nail-bed of the affected finger. I was a little suprised that the lady was able to watch calmly as the scissor blade played around, wedged in-between finger-nail and nail-bed. Of course she felt no pain whatsoever, but still I thought her incapable of baring the sight, as would most patients. A local anaesthetic that I had injected around the base of the finger had deadened it to all pain. "Thank you" she said when I was finally done, and then left. July 25th Dr Akindele and I observed a lady's cervix through a speculum inserted into her vagina for that very purpose. ...