Post-mortem handbook, or, How to conduct post-mortem examinations : for clinical and for medico-legal purposes / by Thomas Harris.

  • Thomas Harris
Date:
1887
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Credit: Post-mortem handbook, or, How to conduct post-mortem examinations : for clinical and for medico-legal purposes / by Thomas Harris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PLATE V. To face p. The Appearance of the Heart when the Dissection of the Eight Side of the Organ has been Completed. . . .28 a. Position of the incision through the anterior wall of the left ventricle and into the aorta. PLATE VI. Method of Cleaning the Intestines 39 PLATE VII. Method of Holding the Knife when Dissecting the Cerebral Hemispheres 62 Fig. 1. Method of holding the instrument when making the incision through the frontal lobe. Fig. 2. Ditto ditto through the occipital lobe. PLATE VIII. Dissection of the Brain 63 a. Bight cerebral hemisphere partially separated from the other part of the brain. b. Left cerebral hemisphere partially separated from the other part of the brain and several incisions made into it. c. Posterior part of the corpus callosum and the body of the fornix turned over to the left side. d. Choroid plexus reflected backwards. e. Transverse incisions into the basal ganglia of one side.
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