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Show . , A New .Surgical Instrument. New York Sun. A surgical instrument of recent invention is a wire loop, which is hea'ed red hot by electricity and used for cutting off tonsils and like excisions. This has suggested an instrument for curiioe bangs which will do aw.iy with the necessity for gas jets and alcohol al-cohol lamps. The electrical apparatus will b eattacbed in a similar manner to the curling curl-ing tunsr. The hair can be wound around the ongs while yet cold, and the connection then established, which will heat the iron to the requisite degree as registered by the" electrometer. The superiority of this method over the old is apparent. There will be absolutely no danger of burning the hair, Ti ; forehead or the fingers, and the curling will be much more speedily accomplished. accomp-lished. These daily practical uses of electricity elec-tricity have given an impetus to the subject in the school 8. A requisite to a degree will yet be: Every girl her own electrician. |