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![the crude manipulations of Fabricius ab Aquapendente and Kum- saeus (1659), who invented a stomach brush * to remove the mucus from the stomach, so that at that time there .was no beer- company at which some did not apply it themselves after drinking heavily, either the same night if they had taken too much, or on tlie following morning, if they were distressed with the thick phlegm in the throat, after having snored out their intoxication. f In the latter half of the previous century John Hunter introduced catheters into the stomach, but only to inject irritating substances into it. The English surgeon, ¥. Bush, was the first to attach a pump to the stomach tube to evacuate the stomach in a case of opium poisoning; this discovery is attributed by others to Weiss, an instrument maker. The stomach siphon was first proposed by Arnott:{: in 1829, and then by Sommerville, but passed into oblivion. Kussmaul * again directed the attention of the profession to the stomach tube in his publications in 186Y and 1869, on the treatment of dilatation of the stomach. Meanwhile it had been occasionally recommended, as in France by Blatin, in 1832, and by Canstatt, II and was also used here and there. It was always a standing though only privately uttered claim of Prof. Frerich's clinic, that the pump had regularly been used long before Kuss- maul's publications. But, as is well known, in disputes as to priority in scientific matters, the time at which the subject in ques- tion is made public is decisive, and hence Kussmaul deserves the credit of having again called the attention of the whole medical pro- fession in an impressive way to the use and benefits of the stomach tube. At the meeting of naturalists at Rostock, in 1871, Leube interesting and very complete history of the stomach tube has recently been published by J. C. Hemmeter. New York Medical Journal, December 28, 1895, p. 819.—Ed.] * [Turck's gyromele is a modern device embodying this idea.—Ed.] f J. Chr. Kundman. Seltenheiten der Natur und Kunst, etc., 1737. Quoted by Leube. X Quoted by Alderson, On the Dangers attending the Use of the Stomach Pump. Lancet, January 4, 1879. * Kussmaul, in Bericht liber die 41. Versammlung deutseher Naturforscher und Aerzte zu Frankfurt a. Main, 1867; and Ueber die Behandlung der Magenerweiter- ung durch eine neue Methode mittelst der Magenpumpe. Deutsch. Arehiv fiir klin. Medicin, Bd. vi, S. 455. II Canstatt, in his Jahresbericht for 1841.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21223026_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
