A NEW OPERATING CHAIR. 



On the advantages of being able readily to adjust the 

 head of the patient to any position required by 

 the Operator, and also on the means for effecting 



Read April 6th, 1857. 

 By H. J. BARRETT, Esq., M.R.C.S. 



The general importance of the subject will be 

 readily admitted by every operator in dental sur- 

 gery. Not only may tbe quiet endurance of the 

 patient depend upon the ease with which he reclines 

 during a long operation, but the success of the 

 operator may be equally affected. All have occa- 

 sionally experienced the great inconvenience of 

 having to operate in the sick-room, where the 

 straight-backed chair of the nurse or ordinary bed- 

 room chair was called into requisition. 



It is not, however, until we have to perform the 

 more difficult and tedious operation of stopping the 

 teeth in situations not readily arrived at, that we 

 duly estimate the necessity for paying great atten- 

 tion to the position of our patient. 



It may appear almost needless to describe the 

 effect upon the health of the operator himself, when, 



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