High-grade hospital furniture and appliances : Catalogue of Department V : comprising operating tables, cabinets, stands, beds, sterilizers, gauze, cotton and surgical supplies : manufactured by Max Wocher & Son.

  • Wocher, Max & son, Cincinnati.
Date:
[1905]
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Credit: High-grade hospital furniture and appliances : Catalogue of Department V : comprising operating tables, cabinets, stands, beds, sterilizers, gauze, cotton and surgical supplies : manufactured by Max Wocher & Son. 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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    GALLOWAY OPERATING AND OBSTETRICAL PADS. Nos. 1—2. The back-rest on this pad is stayed and will support the heaviest patient without collapsing. It can be filled with either air or hot water, the latter proving very comfortable to patients and is at times of decided value. With a 'moment's manipulation the surgeon can form the flexible drainage conduits of any Galloway Surgical Operating Pad into a deep trough, a shallow trough, a curved trough, a tight-end trough or a flat surface for cleansing. No. 1 Galloway Surgical or Obstetrical Pad, with hot water or air back-rest 'JU in. diameter $ 5 50 No. 2 Galloway Surgical or Obstetrical Pad, with hot water or air back-rest 24 in. diameter $ 6 50 No. 3 Galloway Surgical or Obstetrical Pad, with air back-rest 20 in. diameter $ 4 50 No. 4 Galloway Surgical or Obstetrical Pad, with air back-rest 24 in. diameter $ 5 00 No. 5 GALLOWAY OBSTETRICAL EQUIPMENT Tor tHe Easement of Labor by the Use of Heat. [patented.] Use of this equipment will enable the physician to greatly shorten the bedside time of labor; avoid many disagreeable features to himself and patient; keep the bed and clothing clean, and relieve much pain, by relaxing the cervix and perineum. Great relief is experienced from back pains during the first stage of labor, by the heat and mechanical suport of this device. The pad prevents the patient's gown and bed from soil. It forms a perfect rimdam, which the weight of the back cannot break down, as in all other obstetrical pans. The sagging bottom of the pan-accommodates itself to depressions in the bed, without kinking the rim. B A—Inflatable Rim of Pan. B—Back or Body Pad, independent of rim A. This pad can be filled with either air through valve C or with hot water through funnel D. Size of pan, 2oJ4 ^ 24 inches. Size of back-rest, 4^ x 16 inches. G—Syringe joined with a short piece of rubber and shut-off to F, the Douche, over which E, the para rubber bag, is slipped and held in place on the collar of the Douche by rubber ring. 1.^^ The springe and inflation bay are used for emergeccf tamponing. No. 6 Galloway Improved Obstetrical Cushion, with douche, tube, tampon and syringe complete $10 00 No. 5 Galloway Improved Obstetrical Cushion, only $ 7 50