An American text-book of the diseases of children .. . Mathieus Tonsillotome. used for years with the utmost satisfaction. It is the Mathieu guillotine, soconstructed as to do away with the fork attachment (Fig. 5). In place of the fork he uses, held in the other hand, a specially con-structed vulsellum (Fig. 5), by which the tonsil can be grasped, drawnout of its bed, and abscised at the point desired with much greater accu-racy than by the fork attachment (Fig. 6). He has found the action of thefork to be largely accidental, dependent on the size and shape of the tonsiland the amount of gagg
An American text-book of the diseases of children .. . Mathieus Tonsillotome. used for years with the utmost satisfaction. It is the Mathieu guillotine, soconstructed as to do away with the fork attachment (Fig. 5). In place of the fork he uses, held in the other hand, a specially con-structed vulsellum (Fig. 5), by which the tonsil can be grasped, drawnout of its bed, and abscised at the point desired with much greater accu-racy than by the fork attachment (Fig. 6). He has found the action of thefork to be largely accidental, dependent on the size and shape of the tonsiland the amount of gagging by the patient—that now it determines too deep an Fig. o ^
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