An improved defecator or rectal appliance / [Mathias Reimanns].

  • Reimanns, Mathias.
Date:
1904
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Credit: An improved defecator or rectal appliance / [Mathias Reimanns]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    S° 27,085 A .1). 1903 Date of Application, 10th Dec., 1903—Accepted, 14th Jan., 1904 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION. Communicated from abroad by Mathias Reimanns, of \ alkenberg, in tbe Kingdom of Holland, Doctor of Medicine. “ An Improved Defecator or Rectal Appliance ” o 10 15 ‘20 1, William Phillips Thompson, F.O.S., M.I.M.E., of the Firm of W. P. Thompson & Co., 322 High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, and 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Chartered Patent Agents, do hereby declare the nature of this Tivention and in what manner the same is to be per¬ formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:— , I This invention is designed to procure evacuation even in the most difficult circumstances, and without enemas or medicine, with facility, painlessness, and in a short time. In the accompanying drawing: — Figs. 1 and 2 shew side elevations, Fig. 3 view from above, Fig. 4 view from beneath. The apparatus comprises the rounded piston a to which is attached the rod h, with the enlargement c. This latter bears the disc d, to which is attached the ring e. The apparatus is made of vulcanite and polished throughout. When it is in use, it is inserted in the rectum, until the disc d prevents further advance. It is then drawn backwards and forwards and at the same time turned to tho right and left, and these actions repeated as required, being easily effected by passing a finger through the ring e. The evacuation is then effected quickly and painlessly. Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to 25 me by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is: — The improved apparatus for procuring evacuation substantially as described and shewn in the drawing. Dated this 10th day of Dec. 1903. 30 W. P. THOMPSON & Co. Patent Agents for the Applicant. Bedliiil: Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office, by Love & Malcomson, Ltd.—1904. [Price