FRANUM. 
the handle of which iad = flat, and with a fiffure for 
the a te of the 
e have eee thefe jeeuaneste, we have 
ivi 
Cenarys 
nother ot undeervng of paige pom has 
alfo been put into pra e {ciffars, and one of the 
latter inftruments, crcl ed ‘both the hands of the eee 
who was obli to get an affiftant to fupport the child’s 
head. Now it was oe! that the furgeon might be 
made to cut more than w: a8 required, and do mifchief, if 
the a abate in holding the head with a due degree of 
fteadine = to has this exaggerated inconvenience, 
another inftram ented, ane bcs calculat ed for 
fulfillin “all the alee at the fam e. The inftru- 
a al luded to was a metallic fheath, onauie a ito, 
&ed with a fiffure. e knife was retained by a 
mechanical contrivance on the ¥2 fide of the fiffure, in 
Petit, that the witfhed, 
was fixed, c 
had been peer 
In regard to any Pind of concealed biftoury, for the ee 
‘formance of the operation under confideration, we have 
ftate that the furgeons of the prefent day invariably difpente 
with 
uments, except a pair of very fharp fciflars, with- t 
out poin 
Before, the time of Petit, fome bad confequences, apt to 
iding the frenum lin- 
a ie with the knowledge of thefe dangers, and he wrote 
n the fubject an interefting paper, which is publifhed among 
ae oS de, coi ons mie tt — = the year 
onfequ we e Mtafion, is 
the falfocatisn of the a Id by es cages i Gite backwar 
Another danger is an hemorrhage, which occafionally follows 
the operation. 
“The franum ferves to confine the tongue, and keep it 
from being eas too far backward in the action of deglu- i 
n the operation, if an | unneceflary, or too exten- 
the narrow part of the throat, and fo engaged in the open 
ing of the pharynx, as not to admit being brought back 
again into its natural fituation. firft opportunity 
which Petit had of obfer rving this event, wasin a child that 
had died about five hours after ite frenum Jingue had been 
v 
2 
a es _ ey oa pe ges eats was 
efted t og ) 
When M. Petit w: was ee for to another infant which had 
fallen into a ftate approaching to fu sera eg about two 
hours after its frenum lingu d be t, he endeavoured 
e 
a) 
or the. fy of the part becoming difplace 
ae ge feemed to be anfwered by a thick 
laced on the tongue, and retained by a band applie 
round the lower jaw. oe the child had occafion to 
the apparatus was taken d put on again imme- 
datly afterwards. The little pia was fent into the coun- 
try witha ftri& i ee on, that the nurfe fhould continue 
for Cae time the ufe of the sara i and bandage. The 
direction however jag neglected, the child was 
di ed. 
teries 
notice etit however has feen the fame perilous 
occurrence lace, even when th large veffels of 
the tongue were uninjuted, and, of courfe, the bleed- 
in roceeded entirely from fie h {mall v 
ai 
blood, which efcapes from thefe veffels, and college i in the 
child’s mouth, induces the infant to make con ntinual endea- 
after crofling each athe under the chin, are to be pinned 
to the child’s nig In this ‘manner, the vefflels are 
compreffed from below upward by the prongs of edict 
e dow: 
fork, while the bandage makes preffure from a 
war hus, the tongue is fixed, and the bleeding is iiss. 
ped. ‘De la Médecine Opératoire, par Sabatier, tom. 3. 
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