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 . expanded by pulling on the flange with the thumb, toany desired extent. The piece of watch-spring adapts itself to the cavity, and,when rotated, will detach anything that may be attached in the shape of asecundine, without danger of lacerating the uterine walls. All instruments designated by a * are il
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 . expanded by pulling on the flange with the thumb, toany desired extent. The piece of watch-spring adapts itself to the cavity, and,when rotated, will detach anything that may be attached in the shape of asecundine, without danger of lacerating the uterine walls. All instruments designated by a * are illustrated. SHARP & SMITH, CHICAGO. 565 GYNiECOLOGICAL-ECRASEURS. A ROPE ECRASEUR FOR HYSTERECTOMY. By Charles N. Dixon Jones, M. D., Brooklyn. The accompanying cut illustrates a temporary rope ecraseur which I ex-hibited at the December meeting of the Section in Surgery of the New YorkAcademy of Medicine. Those who are accustomed to use the elastic ligaturein hysterectomy or supra-vaginal amputation of the uterus for myoma, will findthe operation greatly facilitated by the use of this instrument. Some form of instrument for temporary compression of the pedicle duringrrjanipulation and enucleation, before the stump is permanently secured, is anecessity in order to prevent 3126 The elastic tourniquet is not so rapid nor so powerful in its action, and,furthermore, it is open to the more serious objection that it is apt to slip overthe stump after the tumor is removed. The rope ecraseur is a modification of Mr. Lawson Taits well knownclamp. It is made stronger and longer, being about fourteen inches in lengthso as to give a wide range of compression in the rope. The rope is thoroughly boiled before use, so that it is not likely to instrument may be easily tightened during any stage of the it has accomplished its purpose the rope is cut, and the instrument isquickly removed and laid aside. A COMBINED CURETTE AND DOUBLE CATHETER. Fig. 3127. By G
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