Specification of William Edward Gedge : administering douches and injections.

  • Gedge, William Edward.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Specification of William Edward Gedge : administering douches and injections. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2 A.D. 1864.—N* 3215. Complete Specification. Gedge s Improved Apparatus for Administering Douches and Injections. fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, reference being had to the accompanying Sheet of Drawing, and to the figures and letters of reference placed thereon, Figure 1 being a side view of this improved apparatus; Figure 2, a section from back to front; and Figure 3, upper side of lid. 5 At Figure 1, V indicates a cylindrical vase made of zinc, about 22 inches high by 14 inches broad, serving for seat to the individual, and as recipient. C, small hollow cylinder, also of zinc, annexed to and in communication with the large vase. It is intended to receive the pump barrel P and render it immoveable; D, moveable cover or lid, also of zinc ; A, B, bottom of the 10 vase, placed obliquely to avoid the use of too great a quantity of water, a necessary economy when the water used has been medicated; P, pump barrel; E, F, vulcanized india-rubber tube, screw-threaded at each of its extremities, to be screwed by one end to the pump, and by the other to a uterine canula; H, I, small metal tube communicating at the point H with the cavity of the 15 pump barrel, and opening at I into the small cylinder C. This little tube is intended to take the water which rises above the piston and transmit it into the cylinder C, and thence into the recipient V. It is thus prevented from spouting out by the small orifice at the point K, which is here made to close. At Figure 2, V1 indicates a section of the recipient; R, point of communication 20 of the small cylinder with the recipient; X, Y, water level, representing about two quarts, being a sufficient quantity for the play of the apparatus; L, 0, canula or tube of variable shape, accordingly as it may be intended for douches or simple injections; S, piston handle. At Figure 3, M indicates the concave lid or cover seen from above; and N, opening cut for the passage 25 of the hand which holds and directs the canula, it also permits the water to return to the recipient V. In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Gedge, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four. 30 W. E. GEDGE. (l.s.) LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode,