A manual of diseases of the throat and nose : including the pharynx, larynx, trachea, oesophagus, nose and naso-pharynx . Fig. 50 Gants Vine-scissor Forceps. Mr. Gant has invented a scissor forceps (Fig. 50) on the principle of thevine or flower-scissors, one edge of either blade being like that of an ordi-nary scissors, and the other broad and rasped, so as to insure firmness ofgrasp, and to retain the growth after it has been divided. This instrumentmay be useful when the growth is unusually hard, but it is open to the ob-jection already urged against the common forceps, viz., that it obstru
A manual of diseases of the throat and nose : including the pharynx, larynx, trachea, oesophagus, nose and naso-pharynx . Fig. 50 Gants Vine-scissor Forceps. Mr. Gant has invented a scissor forceps (Fig. 50) on the principle of thevine or flower-scissors, one edge of either blade being like that of an ordi-nary scissors, and the other broad and rasped, so as to insure firmness ofgrasp, and to retain the growth after it has been divided. This instrumentmay be useful when the growth is unusually hard, but it is open to the ob-jection already urged against the common forceps, viz., that it obstructsthe Fig. 51.—The Authors Punch-Forceps small ridge or punch, fitting, when the blades are approximated, into b, a fenestra in the corresponding portion of the other blade; d and c, joints wherethe male and female blades can be removed and their positions reversed, or, if desired, different kinds ofblades may be substituted. The instrument which I generally use, and which in my hands hasproved thoroughly satisfactory, is my punch-forceps (Fig. 51). Thehandles are placed at such an angle as to be altogether below the level ofthe blades, so that the surgeons hand in no way impedes his sight whenoperating. The blades themselves are slender and open in the vertical 1 This instrument, as well as the various others which have been invented by theauthor, is made Toy Messrs. Mayer k Meltzer, Great Portland Street, London. 186 DISEASES OF THE THROAT AND NOSE. direction, so as to be well adapted for working in a narrow space. Thespecial feature of the forceps, however, is that the lower blade carr
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