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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    acquainted with the circumstances above men¬ tioned. When the curvature of the catheter is no part of its original formation, although it may have been produced by being- long kept in a curved state, yet when allowed to remain in the bladder, it gradually returns to its straight form, by being moistened, and when it has acquired it, the point is no longer kept directed upwards in the cavity of the bladder, but is constantly pressing against the posterior coats, pushing itself out of the ure¬ thra, and the irritation it gives the muscular coat of the bladder will often be the means of its being expelled by a spasm with considerable violence ; this explains what happens when the patient, in consequence of finding, after he has drawn off his water, that the instrument has been pushed out further than it ought to be, pushes it back again, so as to replace it, he hears a clap or noise, which at first, will alarm him with the notion, that it came against a solid substance, and therefore, that there is a stone in the bladder, while it is nothing- more than a spasmodic action of the coats of the bladder upon the instrument. When a flexible gum catheter is to remain in the bladder, it is very desirable that it should be as little disturbed as possible, since every time it is moved backwards or forwards, it is rubbing upon an inflamed swollen prominent part, and therefore interferes with the subsiding of all these symptoms.