Appendix to Down Bros.' catalogue of surgical instruments and appliances : Octoberr 1910 / Down Bros., Ltd.
- Down Bros. (Firm)
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Appendix to Down Bros.' catalogue of surgical instruments and appliances : Octoberr 1910 / Down Bros., Ltd. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![No. 1)143 1)144 AnaBsthetic Screens, continued,— Anaesthetic Screens, continued,—• £ s. d. jMaynard’s (.suggested by Mr. E. Maynard, ]<''.R.C.S , Royal National Ortli02)a3dic Hospital) . . eaeh 0 8 fi Tliis is designed to clip on to tlie tubular framework of tlio main body of any of Down Bros.’ ()poration Tables. Extract from “ British Medical Journal,” July 23, 1910. The sketch shows an operating screen introduced by Mr. Edwin Maynard, F.B.C.S., Mdiile at the Bristol Oeneral Hospital ; it is intended to shut off operation areas from contamination by the ])atient’s e.xpirations or ap- paratus used in maintaining amTesthesia. It can be used for o])erating on any site below the chin. It consists of a piece of spring steel of circular section and of | in. diameter, sliape'd as sliown. It fixes itself to an opc'rating table with rounded edges, and holds firmly in j^osition by virtue of its shape aiid resiliency. A sterilized operating sheet of thick honeycomb towelling thrown over the screen and the operating table beloM' it is held in place on the screen by two or three pairs of Lane’s tissue forceps, and the central slit in the opei-ating sheet exposes only the oj)erating area.. It is made by Messrs. Down Bros. tSilk’.s (as made for Dr. J. F. AV, Silk) to carry one or two stri])s of gauze . . . . . each 1 1 0 'I'his is ma.de in two ioiius, with li.xed base for Hosjiita.l use, or with detachable base foi- |>orta.bility.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29012946_0202.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
