History of ENT archive for September 2022

Photo of Captain David Alexander Draffin, RAMC.

Did you ever meet Draffin on your travels?

2 September 2022 | | ENT

Draffin’s rods or bipods are a well-known ENT instrument. Before their invention in 1951, the attendant anaesthetist or nurse was obliged to support the mouthgag during tonsillectomy. Their originator, David Alexander Draffin (born in 1917 in Ballybey, Co Monaghan), was...