An appeal to the medical profession, on the utility of the improved patent syringe, with directions for its several uses, shewing, by a statement of facts, the validity of the rights and claims of the patentee.

  • Read, John, 1760-1847.
Date:
1824
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Credit: An appeal to the medical profession, on the utility of the improved patent syringe, with directions for its several uses, shewing, by a statement of facts, the validity of the rights and claims of the patentee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    scarcely requires the efforts of an infant; but the effects of these efforts, multiplied by repetition, increase to an almost infinite ratio, and at length present an overwhelming force, capable of bearing down all opposition, and overcoming all natural restraints. To try the power of the syringe, I fixed the injecting pipe firmly into the rectum of an Animal that had been recently killed, and proceeded to pump into the bowels a large quantity of water, and 1 continued the opera- tion with the same ease and freedom, until the intestinal canal, stretched beyond its tone, burst with the distend- ing force. In corroboration of the good effects of this instrument in obstructions of the bowels, I shall take leave to extract the following remarks from one of the most respectable medical publications of the present time. Dr. Chisholm has related a case of obstinate constipa- tion of the bowels, relieved by Bead’s Injecting Machine, after various other means had failed. The obstructions had existed three or four days before Dr. Chisholm saw the patient with Mr. Beet, Surgeon, of Ashford. Wlien seen by Dr. Chisholm, the patient’s extremities were cold, and stercoraceous vomiting had come on. A tepid solution of yellow soap was prepared, and more than a wash hand basin fullysa.?, gradually but perseveringly thrown up by means of the instrument above mentioned, and prevented from return- ing by napkins pressed to the anus. The patients belly now resembled a drum. When the injection was allow'ed to come aw'ay, the spectators had the gratification to find it mixed with foeces. Sliortly after this, the patient passed flatus and stools, and all the bad symptoms quickly vanished. I have had many other eases*’ says Dr. Chisholm, “where Bead s Machine was of infinite service, and I think every medical practitioner should have one in his possession.”— (Med. Repos. No. 1, New Series, Page Ml.)