A handbook for the post-mortem room / by Alexander G. Gibson.

  • Alexander George Gibson
Date:
1914
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: A handbook for the post-mortem room / by Alexander G. Gibson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (Pig. ()j />) Hre iiecessai-y ; a.s, for instance, in removing the orbital plate of the frontal l)one to expose the orbit, for exposing the nasal cavities by removal of the cribriform plate of the ethmoid, and for completing the removal of the temporal bone after making the h Fig. G. necessary incisions with the saw. Another and rather broader and shorter chisel, with a long T-pi^ce at the end, is useful for completing the incision of the inner table of the skull in removing the calvarium (Pig. 0, «)• riie blade is inseided into the saw-cut in various places and the cliisel gently knocked with the hammer; then using the ends of the T-shaped handle to turn the chisel while still inserted in the saw-cut, the cal- varium can, if the inner table is nearly separated, he