On axis-traction forceps / by Alexander Russell Simpson.

Date:
1880
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Credit: On axis-traction forceps / by Alexander Russell Simpson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    By far the most valuable suggestion for obtaining the full benefit of forceps with a pelvic curve is that made in 1877 by M. Tarnier Fig. 8.—Hubert's forceps, with axis-traction bar fixed to tbe bandies the distinguished accoucheur of the Paris Maternity, which is ably explained and clearly illustrated in his memoir.^ (See Fig 4.) The Fig. 4.—Tamier'B forceps. Fellows of this Society will remember that the Tarnier forceps were demonstrated to us by Dr R. Bell^ of Glasgow, and that whilst they present peculiarities in the form of the blades and in the curve of the shanks, their most important and novel features consist in the addition of metallic traction-rods to the posterior edge of the blades, and of a fixation-screw in front of the handles, immediately below the lock. During the application of the blades the traction- rods are each fixed by a catch to the back of their respective shanks, so that the blades are introduced in the same way as an ordinary pair of forceps. After the blades are locked the rods are freed from the catch, and their free extremities fitted and fixed by a slide into a single curved stem, which has a transverse bar ' Description de deux nouvemix forceps. Paris. ^ Transactions of Edinburgh Obstetrical Society, v., 1879.