On 21/04/2015 07:23, Thomas Prufer wrote:
On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:59:39 +0100, Nightjar "cpb"@ insert my surname
here.me.uk wrote:

I have some very nice old surgical instrument catalogues, showing worse
than that. Indeed, thinking about some of the stuff for entering the
skull, I have probably made worse.


Chainsaw!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Osteotome3.jpg

That is a bit old, even for some of my catalogues, but I like it. Making
the teeth must have been interesting.

These days they use oscillating saws, which will cut bone but not soft
tissue.

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Colin Bignell