CHAPTER III

KNIVES 24-50

Cutting instruments--The scalpel handle--Typical form rectangular, with blunt dissector--Round--Octagonal--Mounting the blade--Varieties of blade--Classification--Straight blades with one cutting edge--Scalpel--Bistoury--Scarificator single or multiple--Razor type--Blunt-pointed bistoury--Ring knife for dismembering the foetus--Straight two-edged knives--Galen's long dissecting knife--Phlebotome--Fleams-- Katias--Spathion--Hemispathion--Polypus knife--Lithotomy knife--Knife for lithotomy invented by Meges--Perforator for foetal cranium--Probe-pointed bistoury with two edges--Curved bistoury--Crow-bill--Pterygium knife--Knife for plastic operation for entropion--Uvula knife--Tonsil knife--Fistula knife--Curved two-edged blades--Galen's cartilage knife-- Curved myrtle-leaf-shaped blade--Shears.