Anesthesia


Mouth opener (2b) from MAUNDER

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Mundkeil n. MAUNDER, um 1870

 

 

If you rammed a PITHA mouth gag between the teeth of your patient and he moved his lower jaw, then the gag tipped and the violence took off at 0 or almost. This led the anesthesiologists (or ENT doctors) to give the wedge a round, gyro-shaped shape: if it was between his teeth, tilting was not possible.



The turned-over boxwood bucket - the French spoke of the "toupie ouvre-bouche" or the "poire d'angoisse" - was barely used after 1950.

Elegant and more reliable in its expression - but as brutal as the PITHA-mouth gag - was the gag of MAUNDER, probably named after the London surgeon Charles MAUNDER (1832-1879).



The model from MAUNDER presented here comes from an antique market in the Foire-Hallen / Luxembourg (5.3.2005), the seller originating from Belgium.