Again on Axis-Traction Forceps
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Since these Tarnier forceps were discussed among us they have been discussed in many associations, and by many writers, and the voices are still so discordant that it seems as if a final judgment as to their value were still far off. I am anxious to bring them up again in the Society, that we may have an opportunity of considering some of the objections that have been advanced to their use, and some of the suggestions^ that have been made for their improvement. In taking up the adverse criticisms that have been made to Tarnier's forceps, I notice that they have already earned for themselves the sure note of a permanently valuable invention, that it is said of them, They are not new. Dr Albert Smith, e.g., in the able and lively paper in which he introduced the discussion in the American Gynecological Society,1 alleges that the Tarnier instrument is only a resuscitation of the disused apparatus of Hermann of Berne. Hermann saw as clearly as any of us do, and indicated very forcibly, the difficulty of extracting the head with a curved
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دوره 8 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2017