Context for Bistouries
Illustration from Truax catalogue (1899), 277, shows typical variety of late
nineteenth-century bistouries and hernia knives, and notes that "bistouries differ
from scalpels in being longer and more slender. they are manufactured in various patterns,
with full or partial cutting edges, terminating in sharp, blunt or rounded, and
probe or ball-shaped extremities. Special varieties of
bistouries are known as tenotomes, Hernia knives, gum lancets, etc."
Additional examples of bistouries are shown on the
"scalpels" mates page.
Return to entry for curved sharp bistoury
Return to entry for curved blunt bistoury
Return to entry for straight sharp bistoury
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