A manual of minor surgery / By John H. Packard ... With 145 illustrations. Authorized and adopted by the surgeon-general of the United States army for the use of surgeons in the field and general hospitals.

  • Packard, John H. (John Hooker), 1832-1907.
Date:
1863
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Credit: A manual of minor surgery / By John H. Packard ... With 145 illustrations. Authorized and adopted by the surgeon-general of the United States army for the use of surgeons in the field and general hospitals. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    forceps, except that they have a slide, to keep them shut when necessary, and each branch has a longitu- dinal groove at the inner side of its extremity, shaped Fig. 5. Fig. 6. Polypus or dressing-forceps. E Common slide-forcepa. Another form of slide-for- ceps. so as to take firm hold of the upper end of a needle or hare-lip pin. About the tenaculum, the only peculiarity is that it is placed in a handle, like one of the knives, and has a slide to keep it immovable when shut up or open. The same may be said of the gum-lancet. The lancet is simply a common thumb-lancet. If the surgeon has himself to do any bleeding that may be required in his practice, he should keep one lancet for