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 . SHARP & SMITH, CHICAGO. 631 GYNiECOLOGICAL—SPECULA. FIG. *3686 Clevelands Vaginal Speculum, Fig. , *3686A 3 *3686B Speculum Belt 2 A SELF-RETAINING SPECULUM. By Clement Cleveland, M. D., New York. This instrument is designed as a so-called relf-retaining speculum. Itconsists of two Sims blades, eac
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 . SHARP & SMITH, CHICAGO. 631 GYNiECOLOGICAL—SPECULA. FIG. *3686 Clevelands Vaginal Speculum, Fig. , *3686A 3 *3686B Speculum Belt 2 A SELF-RETAINING SPECULUM. By Clement Cleveland, M. D., New York. This instrument is designed as a so-called relf-retaining speculum. Itconsists of two Sims blades, each with a flange, and separated by an interval of one inch and three-fourths (). These, though in parallelplanes, looking at them fromthe side, will be seen to be at aslight angle to each other whenheld with the concavity of eitherI VcLvd the observer, the nearer1 I de deflected to the right, andtl I farther one to the left. The1 iect of this will be explainedfurther on. At the point of each blade is a fenestra, and at the bend of the instrument, where the two To complete the instrument, On this is. 3686 blades come together, is a narrow metal bandthere is a belt of webbed material to be applied about the waist,looped, to admit of its being moved readily to any position upon the belt, apiece of the same material. To this is attached a long leather strap, with ob-long perforations placed at intervals of half an inch. At the point where thisstrap and the piece of belting are joined there is a hook, the purpose of whichwill appear later. (See Fig. 2). To apply the instrument,the belt is first buckled bythe patient, not tightly, abouther waist and outside of herclothing, with the attachedstrap behind and the hookturned outward. She is thenplaced in the Sims operator selects theblade he thinks better suitedto the case, and, holding theinstrument with the righthand, with the left he passesthe leather strap through thefenestra at the point of theother blade, and the
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