Medical magazine . ferable to any forceps to be found among surgeons in-struments. It will be safe to cut through the skin in any part; and thiswill, in most cases, be sufficiently deep to answer the purpose,as the probe will easily enter the cellular membrane as far aswill be necessary. If the extraneous body be minute, a silverprobe is too soft to give that distinct and peculiar sensation tothe fingers which is always satisfactory. For this purpose, theharder the probe, the better. If any one entertains doubtsupon this point, let him introduce probes of lead, silver andsteel upon detached po
Medical magazine . ferable to any forceps to be found among surgeons in-struments. It will be safe to cut through the skin in any part; and thiswill, in most cases, be sufficiently deep to answer the purpose,as the probe will easily enter the cellular membrane as far aswill be necessary. If the extraneous body be minute, a silverprobe is too soft to give that distinct and peculiar sensation tothe fingers which is always satisfactory. For this purpose, theharder the probe, the better. If any one entertains doubtsupon this point, let him introduce probes of lead, silver andsteel upon detached portions of carious bone, and the differencein the sensations communicated to his fingers, will be sufficientlyapparent. Every surgeon must have observed that he feels a smallpiece of loose bone more distinctly with the end of the steelforceps than with a silver probe : the same remark will applyto searching for a stone in the bladder with a steel sound, or asilver catheter* We therefore claim nothing on the score of. i m
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