Manual of pathology : including bacteriology, the technic of postmortems, and methods of pathologic research . to be made. The body rests firmly upon the back, and the operator, if right-handed, stands to the right of the cadaver. To expose the abdominaland thoracic cavities, an incision shoidd be carried from the lower borderof the thyroid cartilage, or from the interclavicular notch, to the sym-physis pubis, making a sharp semicircular turn to the left at the umbilicusin order to avoid injury to the remains of fetal organs at that j)oint. Thepoint in the neck at which to begin the incision w
Manual of pathology : including bacteriology, the technic of postmortems, and methods of pathologic research . to be made. The body rests firmly upon the back, and the operator, if right-handed, stands to the right of the cadaver. To expose the abdominaland thoracic cavities, an incision shoidd be carried from the lower borderof the thyroid cartilage, or from the interclavicular notch, to the sym-physis pubis, making a sharp semicircular turn to the left at the umbilicusin order to avoid injury to the remains of fetal organs at that j)oint. Thepoint in the neck at which to begin the incision will be determined bycircumstances over which the operator commonly has no control. Ifhe can select the starting-point of his incision, he will ordinarily beginjust under the chin, or may even make a Y-shaped cut extending to theangle of the jaw on either side; this permits a most careful examinationof the floor of the mouth, pharynx, larynx, and adjacent extensive a dissection is rarely permissil)le; in most instances theloosened skin can be retracted upward in such a manner as to permit the. J- - ISION, . ..;,..,„ ;iii, .VuKuUlNAI. Cavity.—{LttulU.) Ordinarily it is not possible to extend the incision to the chin, in which case it docs not go beyond the interclavicular notch. removal of the tongue when the vertical incision does not rise above thelevel of the thyroid cartilage. Still, as before stated, circumstances,more commonly than any arbitrary rule, will settle this point. Over the abdomen, the first incision should pass through the skin andsubcutaneous tissue; then carefully cut through the abdominal wallimmediately below the ensiform cartilage; insert two fingers of the lefthand, drawing the abdominal wall upward; continue the incision, thefingers being used as a guide to the knife. A most excellent rule, neverto be forgotten by the beginner, is to always keep the point of the knifein view, or, if this is not possible, it should be guanled. If
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