Manual of intragastric technique : practical lessons in the use of apparatus for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the stomach / by George Herschell.

  • Herschell, George, 1856-1914.
Date:
1903
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Credit: Manual of intragastric technique : practical lessons in the use of apparatus for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the stomach / by George Herschell. 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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    The use of the gyromele is not difficult. The cable is passed in the same manner as the stomach tube, the patient sitting on the edge of the couch. The patient then lies down, and the handle of the drill is gently turned, the instrument at the same time being alternately advanced and withdrawn for two or three inches. When finally withdraw- ing the apparatus there is the same difficulty, when the larynx is reached, as in the case of the intra- gastric electrode, but not to the same degree. It is met in the same manner by making the patient swallow as the instrument is withdrawn.