The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 388
[Oct. Whitehead, Operation for Cleft of Hard Palate. 388 posterior wall of the pharynx. This thrust being made obliquely backward and inward, the velum is then cut in its entire thickness as far as the posterior border of the palate bone. For thoroughly detaching the soft palate from the Fig. 1. … inner pterygoid plate, Langenbeck, at a later period, made use of other instru- ments (Figs. 3, 4). Fig. 3 represents a side and front view of a double edge, sharp-pointed knife, slightly curved near its point; and Fig. 4 a side and front view of a double-edge knife, curved in the same manner, but…
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