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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    Washing out the Stomach by Regurgitation, a,—Guard, to be introduced between the teeth, for protecting the oesophagus tube from injury. This is by far the quickest, easiest, and most simple mode of operating that has hitherto been devised, requiring no shifting of the apparatus, or interruptions of the opera- tion. It consists simply in filling the stomach, (according to the method of fig. 1, in page 6) until surcharged, or until it begins to re-act upon its contents, when the fluid regurgitates by the mouth. The pumping being now con- tinued, the contents of the stomach are washed up, and forced, by the power of the pump, through the oesophagus (by the side of the tube,) into a vessel held under the chin to receive it The operation may be continued as long as the