Archives of medicine : A bi-monthly journal devoted to original communications on medicine, surgery, and their special branches. . burner, carries the gas; asteady stream of air is pumped in by the aid of a rubberband-ball and a receiver of very distensible rubber, in fact,an ordinary toy balloon covered by a good-sized bag ofnetted twine. The advantages of the instrument over others, consistsin its adaptability to almost any place where it is desirableto use the cautery, and the ease with which almost a whiteheat can be maintained for any length of time. I soon procured one of these instrumen
Archives of medicine : A bi-monthly journal devoted to original communications on medicine, surgery, and their special branches. . burner, carries the gas; asteady stream of air is pumped in by the aid of a rubberband-ball and a receiver of very distensible rubber, in fact,an ordinary toy balloon covered by a good-sized bag ofnetted twine. The advantages of the instrument over others, consistsin its adaptability to almost any place where it is desirableto use the cautery, and the ease with which almost a whiteheat can be maintained for any length of time. I soon procured one of these instruments and used itwith great satisfaction for nearly two years. For practi-tioners in cities and large towns it is very available, as itcan be set going wherever illuminating gas can be physicians in small towns and in the country it is use-less. * The Journal of Aertous and Mental Disease, Vol. Ill, 1876, p. 434. ACTUAL CAUTER Y IN MEDICINE. I 73 Last year, however, a still more perfect and universallyapplicable instrument was placed at our disposal. Paque-lins benzine cautery, (Fig. 3.) designed for surgical pur-. Fig 3. Paquelins benzine platinum cautery. poses, is admirably adapted to medical uses. It consists ota straight handle containing a blow-pipe, and bearing avariety of platinum tips. Those for surgical purposes arepointed or flat in coarse imitation of knives. The tipssuited for counter-irritation are the olive and the olive or cone in my own instrument measures 22 length, and 12 mm. in diameter at its base. (1). I had oneside of it turned up so as to make the olive somewhatkeel-shaped in one profile. The button-shaped tip (3) is like a miniature cooks cap,measuring 13 mm. across the top, and 8 mm. in upper rim of the cap projects nearly 2 mm., and withit I am enabled to make extremely narrow linear cau-terizations. Each tip is supported by three platinum wires,which are fastened to a metallic collar which screws on thehandle. Th
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