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Origins of eponymous instruments in spine surgery.

    Medicine, History

    Journal of neurosurgery. Spine

  • 2018

The authors found that the Penfield dissectors filled a need for delicate tools for manipulating the brain and that the Leksell rongeur increased surgical efficiency during war-related laminectomies, and the McCulloch, Caspar, and Cloward retractors helped improve exposure during the emergence of new techniques.

NEW TONSIL DISSECTOR

My excuse for adding a new instrument to an already large list of tonsil instruments is its simplicity, and adaptability to the removal of the submerged tonsils, and likewise the more or less…

Draffin and his rods

Draffin's rods or bipods are now a well-known, internationally accepted ENT instrument and research into the life of their originator, David Alexander Draffin, reveals that he was a surgeon of courage, wit and great charm.

In Memoriam

Professor Shibata played a key role in the establishment of the Japanese Society of Pharmacognosy in 1947 and was an honorary member of the Society since 1984, and pioneered research on the biosynthe‐ sis of secondary metabolites, ahead of others in his field worldwide.

Howard Atwood Kelly (1858–1943)

Being with Howard Atwood Kelly was like a continuous postgraduate course in many fields, but especially because he filled every minute with the joy of living.

Tears of laughter

CONTENTS Introduction 'Tears of laughter': comedy-drama in 1990s British cinema Chapter one 'Things can only get better.'- comedies of class, culture and community 2.1 Concepts of community,…