. International record of medicine . of half this size are well adapted to the most deli-cate ear or eye work, but care must be taken not to use toostrong a current. For nose and throat work, extreme delicacynot being required, the rubber insulating material is vulcanizedon all around the wires as nt A. An electrode of the shapeshown at A is used by the writer for the reduction of posteriorhypertrophies of the turbinated bodies. The method consistssimply in drawing forward the palate with a White self-retainingpalate-hook (or with Waless rubber cord), passing the electrod
. International record of medicine . of half this size are well adapted to the most deli-cate ear or eye work, but care must be taken not to use toostrong a current. For nose and throat work, extreme delicacynot being required, the rubber insulating material is vulcanizedon all around the wires as nt A. An electrode of the shapeshown at A is used by the writer for the reduction of posteriorhypertrophies of the turbinated bodies. The method consistssimply in drawing forward the palate with a White self-retainingpalate-hook (or with Waless rubber cord), passing the electrodeup behind the palate, and properly cauterizing the hypertrophy. The manipulation of the electrode is watched in the mir- Nov. 12, NE W INVENTIONS.—MISCELLA NY. 559 ror, and tlie tongue is held out of the operators way by the pa-tient with a Chevalier Jackson tongue spatula. With an ordi-nary tongue depressor the operation loses much of its retching occurs, tlie spatula, electrode, and palate-hook should. all he warmed; though, with the palate propeily retracted, theoperation may proceed regardless of the retching, if the patientbe able to hold his head still. The method is always eftective; it matters not whether thehypertrophy is hard and fibrous in structure or soft and oedem-atous. In either case the blade of the cautery knife must bepressed closely in place before the circuit is closed, and a verydiijht to-and-fro motion given to the electrode as its blade sinksdeeper and deeper into the tissues. Whtn tlie platinum is feltto grate on the bone, it is still moved to and fro for a momentlonger to insure the thorough singeing of the periosteum. Thismeans a thorough application, and on thoroughness depends thesuccess of the procedure; a superficial application is worse thanuseless. If the hypertrophy is very large, the cauterization mayhave to be repeated from one to three times at as many subse-quent , but as each sitting only requires an
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