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Title: Postmortem pathology; a manual of the technic of post-mortem examinations and the interpretations to be drawn therefrom;
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Cattell, Henry W(are), 1862- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Anatomy, Pathological Autopsy
Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Fig. 26.—Luers double rhachiotome. This instrument is worked with the right hand and steadiedwith the left by means of the handle attached to the fixed blade, the other blade being movable byclamps, so that the distance between the parallel blades may be varied at the will of the operator. Thesawing is done towards the hip, except for the upper cervical bones, where it can best be done towardsthe occipital bone. This instrument should not be used in marked deformities of the vertebral column.
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POST-MORTEM INSTRUMENTS AND THEIR USE 35 sharpened, the instrument-maker should be cautioned not to grind themto a point. Scalpels, such as are used in dissecting. Those made of asingle piece of metal—i.e., without wooden, bone, or ivory handles—are to be preferred. The brain-knife (Fig. 101) should have a thinblade about ten inches (twenty-five centimetres) long, one and a halfinches (four centimetres) broad, and be blunt at the end like a table-knife. This instrument may also be used for incising the large organsand in opening the cavities of the heart. The brain-knife is sometimessharpened on both edges or it may be marked in the form of a ruleand thus serve a double purpose (Fig. 17). An amputation-knifemay be employed in place of a brain-knife, or in removing thebrain through a trephine opening made in the skull. A Waring bread-knife (Fig. 18), which also does good work, may be used for incis-ing the larger organs. A Valentine knife (Fig. 19), which has twoparallel blades adj

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