{"id":6192,"date":"2015-09-24T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=6192"},"modified":"2015-09-25T15:27:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T19:27:48","slug":"heisters-wedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2015\/09\/24\/heisters-wedge\/","title":{"rendered":"Heister’s wedge"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired\u00a0Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Heister’s mouth-wedge was a popular tool used in dentistry in the late 19th and early 20th-century. \u00a0The purpose of the tool was to keep the mouth wedged open in case a mouth-prop slipped, though one had to be careful\u00a0not to break the teeth. \u00a0As you can see the author was a big fan of the Ferguson gag because of its “good long handles” to provide plenty of leverage when opening the mouth. \u00a0These illustrations come from Anaesthesia in dental surgery<\/a>\u00a0published in London in\u00a01903.<\/p>\n

According to the author, Thomas D. Luke, this was the first work of its kind that\u00a0displayed the various types of anesthesia\u00a0combinations used in operative dentistry. \u00a0Luke gives brief descriptions of anesthesia\u00a0usage, methods of\u00a0application, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of equipment.<\/p>\n

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These two illustrations depict the\u00a0administration of ethyl chloride. \u00a0Apparently ethyl chloride in dentistry was quite new at this point in time and was a pretty good option, at least as good as nitrous oxide according to the author. \u00a0The volume was almost complete when ethyl chloride really came onto the dentistry scene and\u00a0Luke\u00a0considered it to be such an excellent and valuable option that he revised the text to include it. \u00a0It is still used today as a\u00a0local<\/span> anesthetic and a\u00a0<\/span>potent<\/span> inhalation<\/span> anesthetic. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Anaesthesia in dental surgery<\/a> by Thomas D. Luke London : Rebman, Limited, 1903. RK510 .L95 1903\u00a0can be f<\/span><\/span>ound at the Countway Library<\/a> at the Harvard Medical School in Longwood.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Alison Harris, Santo Domingo Project Manager, and Joan Thomas, Rare Book Cataloger at Countway for contributing this post.<\/em><\/p>\n

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