Instruments Required for Resections
All Resolutions
Description:
Set of instruments used in surgery to perform resections. A resection is the removal of part of an organ, tissue, or structure.
- Hey’s saw
- Knife-shaped saw
- Small semicircular saw
- Larrey’s straight saw
- Martin’s saw
- Charrière’s rowel saw
- Dupuytren’s perforator
- Liston’s bone forceps
- Strong forceps
- Forceps for the extraction of sequestra
- Chisel
- Gouge
- Leaden mallet
- Rasp
- Olive-shaped cautery-iron in its handle
- Hatchet-shaped cautery-iron
- Nummular cautery
The caption reads in the original French: Instruments pour les résections.
In the English edition of this book by publisher H. Bailliere (Illustrated Manual of Operative Surgery and Surgical Anatomy. New York: 1852), this plate is titled “Instruments for Exsection of Bones.”