LIGATURING FORCEPS.

Willett's Forceps

Willett (1925) first published his account of the treatment of placenta praevia byscalp forceps and weight traction, in 1925. He describes the treatment of seven cases by means of a modification of de Martell's surgical scalp forceps?the modification being the increase in length of the handles to inches. His two resident medical officers assured him that they found the method both easy and quic...

A Few Suggestions in General Surgery 1Read before a Meeting of the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society on May 14th, 1924.

is described a method of tying ligatures by means of artery forceps. On this one has developed a technique by which all manoeuvres of ligaturing and suturing are done by means of pressure forceps, so that one may perhaps describe it as " The Pressure Forceps Technique." One has always seen in the so-called " spoon and fork operation on bone, brain and joint an element of r^v introduced by hand ...

Missing Forceps

Sclerotomy forceps.

Forceps to facilitate the drainage of subretinal fluid are described.

Eyeball rotating forceps.

cysts or oedema, and should prove of great value in research, as in detachment of the retina. ' Professor Goldmann also gave a short talk and demonstration on the aqueous veins which he had discovered shortly after, but independently of, Ascher. We left with the happiest memories of the quiet courtesy of Professor Gold-mann, and with great respect for his ingenuity in diagnostic instrument design.