The use of the graver's point in dissections

✍ Scribed by Hathaway, Joseph H.

• Book ID: 102741333
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1912
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 802 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-276X
• DOI: 10.1002/ar.1090060905

✦ Synopsis

Last year I had occasion tomalce some preparationsof the inner ear to demonstrate the labyrinth and tympanic cavity and it occurred to me to tcst the efficiency of the engraver's points as inst.ruments for this kind of dissection. The ease wit,h which cxcellcnt results could be obtained by tho use of this instrument immediately suggestcd its practicability in thc hands of stutlents for similar purposes. Accordingly it was m.nde a requirement this year that each student's dissecting st.t should be supplied with a graver's point.

I t has heen my experience that with the more usual methods of employing a mallet and chisel for these fine dissections the student, with uncertain t,cchn.ique and judgment, is quitc prone to ruin the whole specimen at :L single blow. With these engraving instruments, however, it was found t,o bc a very simple and easy matter to guide the students' work :mtl lead t.licm to obtain vcry perfect results. The results of this ycar's