. Postmortem pathology; a manual of the technic of post-mortem examinations and the interpretations to be drawn therefrom;. ment, this procedureusually requires very little use of the knife and is much easier ofaccomplishment than on the opposite side, the force applied by therotation being sometimes sufficient for the sternums removal. Theappearance of the breastplate, after its separation from the body, isshown in Fig. 70. If an aneurism or tumor be found adherent to theribs or sternum, its point of attachment is preserved by sawing throughthe bone at some distance therefrom. In removing the
. Postmortem pathology; a manual of the technic of post-mortem examinations and the interpretations to be drawn therefrom;. ment, this procedureusually requires very little use of the knife and is much easier ofaccomplishment than on the opposite side, the force applied by therotation being sometimes sufficient for the sternums removal. Theappearance of the breastplate, after its separation from the body, isshown in Fig. 70. If an aneurism or tumor be found adherent to theribs or sternum, its point of attachment is preserved by sawing throughthe bone at some distance therefrom. In removing the sternum great care is necessary in order to avoidcutting the innominate or internal mammary veins which lie beneathits upper end and the clavicle. In Bavaria and Wiirtemberg, in orderthat these vessels may not be injured and the part bathed with blood,the regulations for the performance of medicolegal autopsies directthat the lower end of the sternum, when freed, shall be strongly ele-vated, and the sternoclavicular connection and the first rib cut fromthe under side, or the breast-bone may be sawed through below the. Fig. 66.—Method of incising the first rib and the sternoclavicular articulation with the costotome.
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