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It is important that such scalpels be made very short and the 

 handle be of such a character as to afford a firm hold. Such a 

 knife should not exceed 4 inches in length, so that it may readily 

 be concealed in the hand and carried to any part of the uterus. 



Long Cutting Hooks, Sectors and Embryotomes. In ad- 

 dition to the finger knives and scalpels, there has been devised a 

 great variety of larger instruments for section or other divisions 

 of the fetus, known as long cutting hooks, sectors, embryotomes, 

 etc. 



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Fig. 98. 



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Fig. 97. Long Handled Cutting Instruments. 



97, Embryotome of Dopheide. (Harms). 98, Sharp cutting hook of Withers. 



The Long Cutting Hooks consist of long-handled hooks 

 with the concave face of the hook consisting of a cutting edge, as 

 in Fig. 98, or h in Fig. 106. The cutting end is introduced to 



