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  • Hey's catching on to you...*gasp* he must read this blog!

    Holy crap. Goatberg is preparing a negative review 2007

  • In fact very many cases of such displacement may be remedied more easily by a pair of strong bone-forceps, or a Hey's saw, applied to remove the projecting portion of sound bone.

    A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Joseph Bell 1874

  • Where fractures exists with depression, and the margin of one bone overlaps the other; where there is depression without fracture, and where an enlargement of the angular fissue has to be effected, an opening may be made with Hey's saw.

    An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital. 1863

  • Either Lisfranc's or Hey's operation is preferable to Chopart's or Syme's, when admissible, in consequence of affording a greater length of Foot and securing a less tender stump, Pancoast's proposition to sever the Tendo Achillis, is a good one.

    An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital. 1863

  • The instruments required in this connexion are the Saw -- Hey's, Chain and Circular; -- cutting forceps; perforator; mallet; chisel; gouge; rasp; elevator; scalpel, &c.

    An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital. 1863

  • As John Clark died in 1661, it is remarkable to see the last fashion in the way of skull-sawing contrivances in his hands, -- to say nothing of the claw on the handle, and a Hey's saw, so called in England, lying on the table by him, and painted there more than a hundred years before Hey was born.

    Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • It found there was a discrepancy between "Alder Hey's aspiration to be a world-class centre for paediatric surgery, and the standards that it currently achieves".

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • The Duchess, who carried out her first solo public engagement last week when she visited the National Portrait Gallery in London for a preview of a Lucian Freud show, will be given a tour of Alder Hey's burns and oncology units and will also visit Ronald McDonald House, which provides free accommodation for the families of some of the hospital's sickest children, as well as The Brink bar.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Victoria Ward 2012

  • Instead, Mr Abbott will join the pop diva as a guest judge on Hey Hey's Red Faces segment.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • Alder Hey's Alder Centre - which helps families dealing with the loss of their children - at the time of the crash.

    icLiverpool 2010

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