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Last updated: May 22, 2003.
In 1922, Henry Edmund Gaskin Boyle reported on a modification of the Davis mouth gag for dissection tonsillectomy (Lancet 2:1130, 1922). The Boyle-Davis mouth gag is a mouth gag with a tongue retractor; it is still extensively used today.
Boyle-Davis Mouth Gag (Object Number 1)
References:
Boyle HE. A combined gag and tongue retractor. Lancet 2:1130, 1922. |
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