Specification of Alexis Victor Mathieu : apparatus for irrigating the intestines, vagina, etc.

  • Mathieu, Alexis Victor.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Specification of Alexis Victor Mathieu : apparatus for irrigating the intestines, vagina, etc. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Specification. Mathieu's Improved Apparatus for Irrigating the Intestines, Vagina, <$c. and issues by the second ; these two helps are each provided with a screw ring, the inner thread of which is intended to fit on the screw thread of the corresponding joint of the various small apparatus, by the aid of which different irrigations are effected. Great Intestinal Irrigation.—Any sort of vase containing the liquid to be 5 injected is placed a little above the apparatus and near the bedside of the patient, a syphon takes this liquid and conducts it into the reservoir, where its arrival is regulated by a stop-cock. The intestinal canula or clyster pipe being introduced, the pump of the apparatus is set at work by giving the lever an up-and-down movement, which it communicates to the piston of the 10 pump ; the liquid then arrives by the projection tube in the intestine, which it distends ; then the canula retakes it, and the discharge pipe, which follows this latter, deposits the liquid in a vase placed on the floor at the side of the bed. 1 he irrigation is continuous or intermittent according as the stop* cock which ends the discharge pipe is always open or alternately open and 15 shut. Vaginal Irrigation.—Great vaginal irrigation is effected in the same manner ns the preceding, the canula alone being changed. If deemed necessary in intestinal and vaginal irrigation the canulas are held in position by the aid of two elastic bands, the one forming belt, to the back of which the other is 20 attached and from which it passes between the thighs, where it divides into two to fit better on to the canula, afterwards reuniting and being attached to the front of the belt by suitable buckles. In the various fluxes or discharges of women the medicinal liquid contained in the receiver of the box is conducted by the projection pipe into the organic parts, which hermetically close the 25 canula; this liquid is retaken by this latter and the discharge pipe, the stop-cock of which replaces that of the syphon brings this liquid back into the receiver ; it is then q, contiguous come-and-go movement of the liquid. Vesical Irrigation.—The probe being introduced into the bladder is fitted to 30 the projection and discharge pipes of the apparatus. The irrigation is then effected as for vaginal irrigation, a large quantity of liquid being also used or the same liquid as long as may be desired. Cerebral Irrigation.—The hair being shaved off an india-rubber cap is fulled over the head down to the eyebrows, an elastic band firmly fixing its 35 border around the head. The projection and discharge tubes of the cap furnished with their joints are secured to the screw rings of the corresponding paits of the apparatus, and the syphon placed in a vase containing cold or even iced water feeds the apparatus, • ... J