RT Journal
A1 HILL AJ
T1 A new tonsil-snare
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD November 6
VO LIII
IS 19
SP 1560
OP 1560
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.92550190035002c
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.92550190035002c
AB This snare consists essentially of a stylet, sliding collar, wheel and cannula, in the upper part of which are two longitudinal slots. The sliding collar is fastened to the stylet by means of a thumb-screw which passes entirely through the collar and stylet. Threads are cut in the stylet only, thus preventing friction on either side and permitting instantaneous tightening of the wire on the tonsillar base, when a few turns of the wheel completes the operation. The illustration shows the mechanism very well.Its advantages are its ease, rapidity and certainty of operation, strength and simplicity, and the fact that it cannot get out of order.004 Courtland Building.