THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS.

Exhibition of Instruments

Exhibition of Instruments

Last summer (1889), while taking out a course of Bacteriology under Dr Woodhead, I was impressed with the use which he, as a bacteriologist, made of heat as a sterilizing agent, and also with the efficiency of steam in particular for this purpose. It then occurred to me that the sterilization of surgical instruments would be an additional protection against sepsis in wounds, especially in hospi...

Exhibition of New Instruments

Exhibition of Instruments

Dr Maxwell Ross showed a couple of reversible nasal saws made for his colleague, Dr Hunter Mackenzie, by Mr Young. They were an improvement upon the saws in previous use, in that they were made so that they could be set at any angle, and their reversibility allowed of their being used to saw upwards or downwards as the operator desired. The serrated edge was not carried all the length of the in...

Exhibition of Instruments

'Dst Ii0SC0PE which he devised and now demonstrated. The havr^ent shown was the outcome of a difficulty which must te?u.presented ^tse^ to most of those who were engaged in the Ing of clinical medicine. He meant the difficulty of Hor ain'n? and of getting students to hear correctly the lu and abnormal physical sounds produced by the heart, 3ffiSS'-etC' teacher was frequently annoyed by a studen...