To quote him: "purchasing the equipment will not guarantee success, any more than buying a scalpel will turn you into a surgeon" (23, 1377).
Eggs in the breeding substrate were located by peeling off the bark layer of each piece of pine with a scalpel.
The removal of the antennae was performed under a binocular microscope using a fine scalpel.
Jobling, although qualified as a professional surgeon, is in fact presented like an anachronistic physician who can never wield the practical scalpel.
A small 2 mm skin incision is made with a scalpel and the cryoprobe is inserted.
Egg masses were removed by running a scalpel between the margin of the wound and the eggs, and removing the cluster of eggs with forceps.
It is only old age which comes under the scalpel.
I felt that the author was so severely constrained by the page limit that a scalpel had been ruthlessly applied.
