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 . 516 SHARP & SMITH, Mouth-Gag. TONGUE AND LARYNX TRACTOR.—Continued. Other important advantages of this instrument are that where there mightoccur some difficulty in extracting a tube after intubation, extraction is per-formed after elevation of the larynx with any ordinary forceps. The mouth
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 . 516 SHARP & SMITH, Mouth-Gag. TONGUE AND LARYNX TRACTOR.—Continued. Other important advantages of this instrument are that where there mightoccur some difficulty in extracting a tube after intubation, extraction is per-formed after elevation of the larynx with any ordinary forceps. The mouth gag, which is herein represented, will be found to havesuperior qualities in its construction in many points. I have found that allother gags are very troublesome to introduce into the mouth of the child, on account of the shoulders of thealveolar processes of the gagger,which are very large, and espec-ially when one has to deal with astubborn patient, who will notbegin to open his mouth. Thisled me to have a wedge attach-ment made to the side of thealveolar process, and very lowshoulders, in order to help toopen the mouth and thereby slipimmediately the gag in betweenthe angles of the jaw. The al-veolars of the gag are padded with soft rubber, and which can be changed inevery case; thus no damage is done to the t
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