The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations . Fig. 743.—Position of Hand and Knife(Fergusson). Fig. Hi.—Position of Hand and Knife(Liston).. Fig. 745.—Position of Hand and Knife (Author) the operation. There can be no doubt, however, as Fergusson haspointed out, that m actual practice, at least after his first few years asan operator, he held the knife under the hand, with the index-finger uponthe side or the back of the blade. For my own part, I believe that every Surgeon will hold the knife inthe wa3^ which he finds most convenient, and, a
The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations . Fig. 743.—Position of Hand and Knife(Fergusson). Fig. Hi.—Position of Hand and Knife(Liston).. Fig. 745.—Position of Hand and Knife (Author) the operation. There can be no doubt, however, as Fergusson haspointed out, that m actual practice, at least after his first few years asan operator, he held the knife under the hand, with the index-finger uponthe side or the back of the blade. For my own part, I believe that every Surgeon will hold the knife inthe wa3^ which he finds most convenient, and, as it were, natural to any rules can be laid down on this point, I should say that, in ope-rating on a child, or on an adultwitli a shallow perinseura, theknife is most conveniently heldas represented in Fig. 745. Butif the patient be fat, and theperinseura deep,then I think thatit is a question whether greatersteadiness may not sometimesbe secured by holding the knifesomewliat in the manner of agorget, with the index-finger, perhaps, a little more upon the side of theliandle (Figs. 741 and 745); in this way the point is firmly pressed intothe groove of the staff, out of which i
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