Catalogue of Sharp & Smith : importers, manufacturers, wholesale and retail dealers in surgical instruments, deformity apparatus, artificial limbs, artificial eyes, elastic stockings, trusses, crutches, supporters, galvanic and faradic batteries, etc., surgeons' appliances of every description . 2728 2723 Instruments designated by a * are illustrated. 510 SI-IARr & SMITH, CHICAGO. INTUBATION APPARATUS. Fig. 2729 ODwyers Intubation Set, complete. Comprising:*273o Fig. I. ODwyers Mouth Gag. 525 00 2731 *2732 *2733*2734 2. 2-G 3- Tube Introducer. Tubes with Obturator. Scale for measuring the Tube


Catalogue of Sharp & Smith : importers, manufacturers, wholesale and retail dealers in surgical instruments, deformity apparatus, artificial limbs, artificial eyes, elastic stockings, trusses, crutches, supporters, galvanic and faradic batteries, etc., surgeons' appliances of every description . 2728 2723 Instruments designated by a * are illustrated. 510 SI-IARr & SMITH, CHICAGO. INTUBATION APPARATUS. Fig. 2729 ODwyers Intubation Set, complete. Comprising:*273o Fig. I. ODwyers Mouth Gag. 525 00 2731 *2732 *2733*2734 2. 2-G 3- Tube Introducer. Tubes with Obturator. Scale for measuring the Tubes to assist in the selection of proper Forceps. SHARP & SMITH, 2734 (Fig. 4-) The numbers on the scale (Fig. 3) indicate the years for which the corre-sponding tubes are suitable. For instance, the smallest tubes when applied tothe scale will reach to the first line, marked i, and is intended to be used up to SHARP & SMITH. CHICAGO. 511 the age of twelve or thirteen months; the size marked 2 is suitable for the nextyear, 3 and 4 for these years, and so on. When the proper tube is selected forthe case to be operated on, a fine thread is passed through the small hole nearits anterior angle, and left long enough to hang out of the mouth; its objectbeing to remove the tube should it be found to have passed into the oesophagusinstead of the larynx. The obturator is then screwed tightly to the introductor, to prevent thepossibility of its rotating while being inserted and passed into the tube. The following is the vietJiod of introducing the tube, which is done withoutthe use of an anaesthetic. The child is held upright in the arms of a nurse,and t


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