A system of surgery : pathological, diagnostic, therapeutic, and operative . quired for the ready and successfulperformance of this operation, and it is always desirable to have rather too manythan too few, so that every emergency may be promptly met as it arises. Theincisions through the skin and muscles are made with ordinary scalpels, but fordetaching the bones from the soft parts and dividing the ligaments, stout, probe-pointed knives, with broad, steel handles, convex and semi-sharp at the end, willbe necessary. Excision of the bone is effected with a hand-saw, a pair of pliers,or the gou
A system of surgery : pathological, diagnostic, therapeutic, and operative . quired for the ready and successfulperformance of this operation, and it is always desirable to have rather too manythan too few, so that every emergency may be promptly met as it arises. Theincisions through the skin and muscles are made with ordinary scalpels, but fordetaching the bones from the soft parts and dividing the ligaments, stout, probe-pointed knives, with broad, steel handles, convex and semi-sharp at the end, willbe necessary. Excision of the bone is effected with a hand-saw, a pair of pliers,or the gouge and chisel, according to the structure, size, and situation of theafiFected piece. The saw, which may be a common amputating one, should befrom six to ten inches in length by from three to twelve lines in width, its teethbeing sharp and widely set, and its handle long and thick. A saw, lately intro-duced by Mr. Butcher, of Dublin, and bearing his name, will be found very use-ful, especially when there is but little space, or when it is necessary to divide the Fig. Butchers saw. bone obliquely. It has, as will be perceived by a reference to the engraving, avery narrow blade, the angle of which can be changed at pleasure. In addition Fig. 182.
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