M0013878: Weiss's improved patent cupping apparatus

Date:
January 1955
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/124/63
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: M0013878: Weiss's improved patent cupping apparatus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    78* circumstances. The maker first employed was frequently told that the outside of the catheters be¬ came rough, and were therefore productive of ex¬ treme pain in two or three days, and sometimes in less time, the smooth surface being either raised into innumerable sharp points, or into small blisters. At length, long determined to try some other catheters, a person was recommended as an excellent instrument-maker, (Mr. Weiss, of the Strand,) of whom some elastic catheters were procured, and these, after the first, trial were con¬ stantly preferred. Mr. Heaviside observed that the former catheters he had been sometimes obli¬ ged to remove within eight hours after they had been passed new, and they were even then found more rough and spoiled than those of the latter kind, after ten days’ residence in the bladder ; at which time withdrawn, they were sometimes per¬ fectly unaltered, and being laid aside and allowed to dry, were again passed, and kept in twelve, or even thirteen days more. One exactly under these circumstances I examined ; it was smooth and po¬ lished as if new, though on slitting it up, its cavity was covered with a coat of mucous and sabulous matter, proving its having been much used. \ (Extracted from Howship’s Treatise on the Diseases of the Urine, aud Urinary Organs, from page 322.)