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An early to mid 19th century grooved
steel director mounted on a an attractively carved round
crosshatched ebony handle. These were used as directors to guide
instruments along a safe course into an abscess requiring
aspiration. Either a narrow knife or a pair of dilating forceps
would have been be passed along the groove to create a new opening
or widen an existing fistula. In this way the opening to an an
abscess or other cavity could be enlarged as the instruments were
withdrawn, without cutting or causing haemorrhage. |
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