A description of Read's patent syringe, or, Stomach pump, and lavement apparatus : with directions for its employment in the following operations, viz.: extracting poison from the stomach : administering clysters : introducing tobacco fumes into the bowels : transfusion of blood & venous injections : drawing off the urine : injecting the bladder : female injections : administraiton of food and medicine : drawing the breasts : injecting the wounds inflicted by rabid animals, thereby preventing hydrophobia, &c. &c. : containing also testimonials of its superior utility, and a tabular view of poisons and antidotes, from professional authority / by John Read.

  • Read, John, 1760-1847.
Date:
[1830?]
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Credit: A description of Read's patent syringe, or, Stomach pump, and lavement apparatus : with directions for its employment in the following operations, viz.: extracting poison from the stomach : administering clysters : introducing tobacco fumes into the bowels : transfusion of blood & venous injections : drawing off the urine : injecting the bladder : female injections : administraiton of food and medicine : drawing the breasts : injecting the wounds inflicted by rabid animals, thereby preventing hydrophobia, &c. &c. : containing also testimonials of its superior utility, and a tabular view of poisons and antidotes, from professional authority / by John Read. 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 following Report has just been received from Dr. Mackie, a British Physician, engaged by the French Go- vernment to superintend the cholera stations. Paris, Wtk Oct. 1832, I have had a communication from the Council Board of Health in London, respecting the use of your stomach pump iu cases of cholera, and my reply will, I trust, con- tribute to establish its reputation as a preliminary step in the treatment of that disease. I am now enabled to say, that the cases, which have passed under my care, have been sufficiently numerous to put its efficacy to the test, and its application has not failed of success in a single instance ! Dr. Marc, the King's Physician, requests me to procure for him, one of your Syringes, as those wliich are made here are very defective ; please to forward it immediately. Patrick Mackje, M. D.: Mr. John Read, 35, Regent Circus] London. J. Read respectfully begs to add that having brought his patent spherical valves to the nicest state of perfection, his apparatus for Transfusion and Saline Injection, is free from all the objections and difficulties hitherto connected with the operation.