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to have a university degree (until then all in medicine). He specialized in gynecology, taking a doctorate in Madrid, where he developed his professional activity. She was an auxiliary doctor at the
Hospital de la Princesa (1891) and at the Provincial House of Maternity and Inclusa (1902). In addition, she opened a private clinic, first (1890) at her own address in Salustiano de Olózaga Street, where she attended poor women for free, and then in Argensola (1906), Serrano (1915) and Núñez de Balboa (1927), where she attended in prepared rooms and adapted schedules for people of different economic possibilities. Her attention became famous because of his warmth and closeness with the patients and their children, who could go to the office to hundreds in a single day.
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sliding out once introduced. In addition, the system was offered in two models of different design and size depending on whether they were narrow or dilated cavities and more or less lax walls, being explained through drawings the way to use them and being very simple cleaning through boiling and the use of antiseptic substances. However, this patent did not pass the mandatory procedure of its implementation and ended expired in 1912. Still, it is likely that he used his invention in his usual optional work.
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interest towards pedagogy. Aleixandre decided to follow a very unusual, unknown and unthinkable path for women at the time (usually condemned to domestic home jobs and child education), se inscribed herself in the
Faculty of Medicine at Universidad de Valencia.Being one of the first women to choose this path, she had to confront many issues with the university's management, which at the end, accepted her inscription.
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baths), also serving to avoid surgical intervention and prevent pathologies such as fibrous degenerations, tubal abnormalities or serious inflammations. Also, Aleixandre points out the inconveniences (infections and bad smell) of the soft pessary designed in rubber by the French gynaecologist Amédée
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Concepción was born in
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The device invented by the
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In 1910, Aleixandre registered a patent (nº 47109) in favor of two metal pessaries of reducible rings. The pessary is a device that is placed in the vagina to correct the descent or prolapse of the uterus, usually as a result of childbirth. This instrument allows the matrix to be supported by
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supporting the abdominal viscera that affect the organ. Its effect is, therefore, similar to that of the trusses to contain hernias or to the candles that separate the walls of the urethra.
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