Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-11-22
SURGEONS TOOLS
As FEW AS POSSIBLE USED BY THE
MOCERN PRACTITIONER.

To Remove an Appendix, For In
stance, He Can Carry Everything
Necessary In One of His Pockets.
Hand Forged Instruments the Best.
"A surgeon used to carry bag of in
ItrumentS weighing often as much as
twenty-five pounds when he was called
TO operate" said member of the staff
IF the New York Postgraduate Med
Ical School and Hospital the other day.
Today an average operation, such as
the removal of an appendix, calls for no
more instruments than can be carried
in the pockets.
Il have just come" continued the doc
tor, from removing an appendix, and
here in this small package are all the
instruments | used-a scissors, two ar
terry clamps, two forceps and a needle
Many operations. Of course CASTRO
en- eric. genealogical and those that
have to do with bones-require more
Instruments. but modern science de-
man:s The use of as few is possible in
order that time may be saved. Skill
and haste are prime factors in an op-
GRAFTON. In the old days, before anaes-
thesla was known, this was to shorten
the patients agony as much as possible.
After ether was discovered surgeons
for awhile operated more leisurely, but
soon finding out that the shock to the
patient remaining under ether so long
was always dangerous and often fatal
they again recognized the importance
Of swifness. Diminishing the number
of Instruments was one of the methods
for saving time. In the operating room
In the old days there was always, no
matter what the operation, a good sized
table laid out with ten or fifteen score
Of Instruments, fifty artery clamps,
scissors, forceps and lancets by the
dozen. 1t used to take over an hour TO
remove an appendix; today the average
IS about twelve minutes.
The variety of instruments increases
every year as surgeons meet with new
needs or solve old problems. In Our
school here, as in others, many instru-
ments have been devised. Especially
10 those having to do with the eye, ear,
nDse aad throat have we made valua-
blo additions 10 VOL nc in the field of
,r,hopeJic onnlionres The Hinnocrat-
ic oath precluGes the patenting of any
such inventions; consequently all in
StrumeutS are free 10 be made by all
| and cve"y surgical manufactory."
The making OF surgical instruments
II, tba I-r;taJ Stotas i naorlv contem.
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a., ,,ro,,,;
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tho civil VI. I'm -, country ara fine,
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or,plora.3 ! ..a,II avnYv. man * Z
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ior,.nevm,n fn.v,.:nr rinol1a of mak-
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ahort 1nreI- which , s.n.,sicaI bouse
n,us, l,aa, j., ..,ocl. ~. ba ra,dv IN pro
I,,oo ,,o,, ,,,lor
ros+ ,,d ,I.,, fo,.,od Instruments
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od,,o &, ,,.o,.r ,,,, tba,, c,,, .,a,.or NO SAT.
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Witch ,ba,. ,,nda,.ro dam.,,,7.. that tbev
t- ,,.,,,,,It H., ,i.no.. ,o e, white
ho,, rho first limo tha stool become,
+o,,,norod. ,ba secoud and third time II
,ll.a,,,,.. do,.,,.,oniyod md Iasa. its
+op,nor th, ras,,lt holm, an fn.tru-
,.nt viii, e. ,bau of hard stool cana.
blo of to,,i,..., fair adoa but beneath
u.bich tha metal * soft and unfit t5
stand h,,,in
IAN go,4 instruments are hand
for,,ad rhus n,icas ,ra doubled and
trahIad ovar tha urices of cast instru-
,o,,+, na.,usa az tho skilled Labor and
tima necessary In the;r construction.
rho work man in careful factory
must m,la - study Of his work and
Iaarn tI,e uhvsicaI ulalities of the
.+ooI or r,atal ba works with its
stronoth and cutting and tension ouaL
ities Canarot ona-.,1ina instruments
are made of steel silver platinum.
aoId and aluminium German steel.
owing to its tenacitv is used for for
cans and bIunt Instruments: English
oort stooI fo, adgod tools rs il receives
a kich tamnar , fine nolish and re
tains IFS edge. Silver when pure is
vow eex;hla and * useful for cathe-
tors which reouire freoueDt change of
o,.,o wbon ,ixad with other metals
oe o,i, ,il,or il p,ol,as firm catheters
nor,+io boIdors and couuuIated work.
Seamless silver Instruments are least
rohIo - corroda Platinum resists the
sction of acids and ordinary heat and
60 ,,saf,,l for ca,,stic holders actual
oo,,+orias and tho electrodes of ihe
ooIvano ,,...arv GohI owing to its
d,ot;Iitr i ,aantad for fine tubes,
suob oS ara svrinoes and so forth.
It'll oI,,n,;nt,n,, i. Inv its extreme
,;ah+noss rritahIo for nrobes STYLES
o1d trocbaotom, tubes
"HandIes are made of ebony, ivory,
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