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Title: The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Edgar, J. Clifton (James Clifton), 1859-1939
Subjects: Obstetrics
Publisher: 3rd ed., rev
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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object in using canvas here, with a separate loop orcompartment for each piece of glassware or instrument, was to secure a noiseless tray forthis part of the physicians obstetric outfit, one in which the articles are all in plain sight,so as to be selected at an instants notice, and one, moreover, that can be repeatedly cleansedby boiling whenever soiled by bloody fingers, soap, vaseline, or ergot. 7. The case as a whole is readily converted into an obstetric operating case by theaddition of the desired instruments pinned in towels and placed in the larger of the twotrays, for which purpose sufficient room has been provided. The length of the large traypermits of Tamiers forceps, a cranioclast, and a cephalotribe being carried in it. Contents of the Case.—(a) In large male tray: (i) Clean apron. (2) Kelly pad. (3)Canvas lithotomy sling. (4) Four-quart sterile douche bag in canvas case. (5) MetaJreceptacle containing sterile vaginal and douche tubes and glass catheter. (6) Volsella,
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Fig. 609.—The Authors Obstetric Case.— (From a photograph.) 468 THE MANAGEMENT OF LABOR. 469 dressing, needle and tongue forceps, and scissors in canvas case. (7) Obstetric forceps incanvas case. (8) Sterile cotton and plain gauze. (9) Five per cent, iodoform gauze. (10)Two sterile nail-brushes. -(11) Rubber gloves. The two metal and the one canvas tray having been cleansed by boiling or by dryor moist heat, as already described, each of the various articles contained in the abovelist is cleansed in a different manner in order to secure surgical cleanliness, (i) Theapron or canvas suit is simply freshly laundered. (2) The Kelly pad is cleansed with laun-dry soap, hot water and a brush, and finally with a i : 20 carbolic acid solution; shoiold thepad be used about a case in which a suspicion of sepsis exists, it is boiled for half an hour.(3) The Kelly canvas lithotomy sling is made of canvas, galvanized iron rings, and brassbuckles, and is boiled for half an hour after use. (4) Th

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