A description of Read's patent syringe, or, Stomach pump, and lavement apparatus : with directions for its employment in the following operations, viz.: extracting poison from the stomach : administering clysters : introducing tobacco fumes into the bowels : transfusion of blood & venous injections : drawing off the urine : injecting the bladder : female injections : administraiton of food and medicine : drawing the breasts : injecting the wounds inflicted by rabid animals, thereby preventing hydrophobia, &c. &c. : containing also testimonials of its superior utility, and a tabular view of poisons and antidotes, from professional authority / by John Read.

  • Read, John, 1760-1847.
Date:
[1830?]
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Credit: A description of Read's patent syringe, or, Stomach pump, and lavement apparatus : with directions for its employment in the following operations, viz.: extracting poison from the stomach : administering clysters : introducing tobacco fumes into the bowels : transfusion of blood & venous injections : drawing off the urine : injecting the bladder : female injections : administraiton of food and medicine : drawing the breasts : injecting the wounds inflicted by rabid animals, thereby preventing hydrophobia, &c. &c. : containing also testimonials of its superior utility, and a tabular view of poisons and antidotes, from professional authority / by John Read. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    and introduced gently into the bowel, the patient sits down upon it. Upon a chair opposite, must be placed a basin containing the liquid, into which, the lower end oi this syringe is to be immersed, and the lavement thrown up by slowly working the handle. N.B. See that the white metal cap is screwed closely to the end of the tube. For those who prefer such a convenience, a Reservoir is made to contain the liquid, which is screwed to the syringe, and may be carried in the hand or the pocket to the water-closet, as here represented. Administration by an Assistant. First fix the tube to the syringe, as described at page 8; next remove the white metal cap from the end of the brass socket, and fix it upon the perpendicular screw of the same ; and, lastly, insert the screw at the end of this socket into the bowel pipe. The patient should recline upon the* right side, and the tube may be passed under the bed clothes, without any exposure of the person, the instru- ment being worked by an attendant, in the same manner as if used by the patient himself.