A textbook of obstetrics . Fig. 582.—Tarniers basiotribe(separate parts |.. Fig. 583. -The second blade of thebasiotribe has crushed the sinciput. EMBRYOTOMY. 77* Braun and the author has added to the latter instrument a pelviccurve, which facilitates its application at the superior strait. Thecranioclast is made with two blades : one for insertion inside, theother outside, the skull. The handles are provided with a screwand nut to bring them close together, so as to give the blades apowerful grip upon the skull. Head Crushers or Cephalotribes.—The cephalotribe is the in-vention of the younger


A textbook of obstetrics . Fig. 582.—Tarniers basiotribe(separate parts |.. Fig. 583. -The second blade of thebasiotribe has crushed the sinciput. EMBRYOTOMY. 77* Braun and the author has added to the latter instrument a pelviccurve, which facilitates its application at the superior strait. Thecranioclast is made with two blades : one for insertion inside, theother outside, the skull. The handles are provided with a screwand nut to bring them close together, so as to give the blades apowerful grip upon the skull. Head Crushers or Cephalotribes.—The cephalotribe is the in-vention of the younger Baudelocque. It is simply a heavy,powerful forceps with the handles screwed together so as forci-bly to compress the skull between the blades. The best cephalo-tribe is Tarniers basiotrHn\ which combines a perforator and apowerful head crusher. Other modern instruments for the extraction of the mutilated J A ^W ^ff^- w& ..,Jf^ ^W^ Fig. 584.—Perforation of the head begun : the right hand is grasping the handlesof the instrument. The tips should not be separated u


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