Identifier: postmortempatho00catt (find matches)
Title: Post-mortem pathology; a manual of post-mortem examinations and the interpretations to be drawn therefrom; a practical treatise for students and practitioners
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Cattell, Henry Ware, 1862-1936. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Anatomy, Pathological Autopsy
Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ards the front, its cutting surface measur-ing from ten to fourteen inches (twenty-five to thirty centimetres)for an adult and six inches (fifteen centimetres) for a babe, or alarge cross-cut carpenters saw, does the quickest work in removingthe calvaria. Heys saw (Fig. 23) is useful in sawing the angleswhen opening the skull. A metacarpal sazv (Fig. 24) is often ofsen-ice, especially in examining the femur of a babe for the detectionof syphilitic osteochondritis. Liters double rhachiotome (Fig. 25),employed for opening the spinal column, consists of two parallel sawswith curved blades, the distance between which can be regulatedby screws, and a very firm handle with a strong central support.Various forms of dental and trephining engines, usually driven byelectricity, have recently been introduced and are useful in saving time 3Q POST-MORTEM EXAMINATIONS and labor. Among such engines may be mentioned those of Cryer 1(Fig. 26), de Vilbiss, Wright, etc. These instruments are high-priced
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Fig. 26.—Cryers electrical surgical engine for cutting bone. A, spiral osteotome, with guard, forremoving section of skull; B, spiral osteotome ; C, trephine; D, guard for osteotome; E, electric motor ;F, crank for hand propulsion ; G, driving wheel for hand propulsion. (from one hundred to three hundred dollars), on account of the in-frequent demand for them. Hand-driven instruments may be pur-chased for twenty-five dollars and upward. 1 Medical News, January 30, 1897.

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