. An epitome of the history of medicine. By Roswell Park ... Based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. 2d ed. Illustrated with portraits and other engravings . hich havebeen flattened or imbedded in bone. A displays particularly the cannula. £, hinge,by means of which the lizards beak is opened and closed as much or as little as thesurgeon wishes. C, the rod which opens and closes the lizards beak. When drawnupon it closes and when pushed it opens the instrument. B, D, dilator and mirror ;in Latin, ^ dilatatormm, fqjeculum. The instrument is somewhat roughened and
. An epitome of the history of medicine. By Roswell Park ... Based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. 2d ed. Illustrated with portraits and other engravings . hich havebeen flattened or imbedded in bone. A displays particularly the cannula. £, hinge,by means of which the lizards beak is opened and closed as much or as little as thesurgeon wishes. C, the rod which opens and closes the lizards beak. When drawnupon it closes and when pushed it opens the instrument. B, D, dilator and mirror ;in Latin, ^ dilatatormm, fqjeculum. The instrument is somewhat roughened anddentated in order to take a firm hold of whatever it grasps. It may serve two pur-poses : first, to dilate and enlarge the wound so that it may be seen to the bottom,and also to make way for some instrument, as pincers or crows beak, and to graspmore easily and withdraw the foreign body ; secondly, it may itself serve to extractthe foreign body,—, a, double-headed ball; 6, a small chain ; c, c, some pieces ofmail. E, E, cranes beak; in Latin, rostrum grui7ium. H, H, ducks beak;in Latin, ? rostrum unserinum. K, sound. L, ball-extractor without , cannula with FiQ. 17.—Vakious Instruments fou the Extraction of UallSj. (From the IVurka on Chirurgerir, by Jacques Guillemeau, ohirurgeon oidiuaryto the King of France, 1649.) 132 THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE. university. They not only admitted him to all their de-grees, but awarded him a reception,—a hitherto unknownhonor. Pare in his time met with a success which to-day wouldbe pronounced extraordinary. He seemed to inspire thewounded with the utmost confidence, and to possess great-ness and firmness of character in the highest degree. It is,perhaps, even more extraordinary that with so strong acharacter he should have so long retained favor at the midst of the excitement of camps, and a very ex-tended practice, he found time to read all that had beenpublished on his art, and to compose himself a great
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