A manual of diseases of the throat and nose : including the pharynx, larynx, trachea, oesophagus, nose and naso-pharynx . orceps. Michael,1 of Hamburg, has invented an instrument for the removal ofadenoid vegetations, which he states that he has used for the last threeyears. He calls it a double chisel, but it is, more strictly speaking, a cut-ting forceps. The blades are turned up at a right angle from the stem,the angle, however, being well rounded, and the cutting edge extending3 ctm. beyond that point. It differs from other forceps of an analogouscharacter in the circumstance that the prin
A manual of diseases of the throat and nose : including the pharynx, larynx, trachea, oesophagus, nose and naso-pharynx . orceps. Michael,1 of Hamburg, has invented an instrument for the removal ofadenoid vegetations, which he states that he has used for the last threeyears. He calls it a double chisel, but it is, more strictly speaking, a cut-ting forceps. The blades are turned up at a right angle from the stem,the angle, however, being well rounded, and the cutting edge extending3 ctm. beyond that point. It differs from other forceps of an analogouscharacter in the circumstance that the principal cutting part of this in-strument is at the angle and not at the point as in Lowenbergs andmy own. I may add that I have not found Michaels instrument at allconvenient. In removing post-nasal vegetations, Meyer, of Copenhagen, prefers touse his own ring-knife. This consists, first, of a little ring of atransverse oval shape, its axes being and 1 ctm. respectively, and itsbreadth mm., having one edge sharp, although not , and the other one rounded off; and secondly, of a slender, stiff,. Fig. 64.—Prof. Stoerks Post-nasal Snare. but at the same time flexible stem 10 ctm. long, bearing the ringat one extremity, fixed into a roughened handle at the Meyersplan of operating is to introduce this instrument through the patientsnose into the naso-pharynx with the right hand, while the left index fingeris passed into the mouth behind the velum, where it is made to press the-vegetations against the edge of the ring-knife, which must at the same 1 Berlin, klin. Wochenschrift, 1881, No. 5. 2 Med. Chir. Trans., London, 1870, vol. liii., pp. 211, 212. NASAL INSTRUMENTS. 193 time be drawn downward, so as to scrape away the excrescence. Thestem being flexible, the knife can be bent toward one side or the other, asmay be necessary. Stoerk has had a special loop (Fig. 64) adapted to his laryngeal guillo-tine (Fig. 48, vol. i., p. 191) for the removalof pos
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