WW1 Surgical Fergusson-Type Anaesthetic Mouth Gag By Cash & Sons
Code: 13125
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For sale is a WW1 Period Surgical Fergusson-Type Anaesthetic Mouth Gag By Cash & Sons England.
Mouth gags are used to keep a patient’s mouth open during surgery. If anaesthetics are given through a tube placed down the windpipe (trachea), it is important that the patient does not bite down on the tube and stop the flow of anaesthetic. The gag may also have been used to keep the mouth open during surgery – for example when tonsils were being removed. The gag was originally designed by William Fergusson (1808-77), a British surgeon, in 1876. The grooved jaws designed to fit against the teeth of this mouth gag were added by William Robert Ackland (1863-1949), a British dentist.
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