Dr Potain's vacuum cleaner in its case - Circa 1900 - Antique medical instrument - GENTILE

€185.00

Dr Potain vacuum cleaner in its case

Around 1900

Antique medical instrument from manufacturer GENTILE in Paris

Description

Dr Potain vacuum cleaner in its case - Antique medical instrument

Around 1900

By GENTILE, manufacturer of surgical instruments in Paris.

This instrument was used to evacuate liquids, notably for pleurisy, an inflammation of the pleura, the membrane surrounding the lungs, which often contains liquid in the pleural cavity.

It could also be used to evacuate urine from a retained bladder, or gas from an intestine strangled by a hernia. But it could also be used to inject liquid.

(Source: conservatoire du patrimoine hospitalier de Rennes).

The set is complete, even its rubber tubes. A broken glass tube

Includes:

-A steel pump with two spigots at the end.

-A hollow metal rod with a double conduit branching into two branches, each fitted with a tap.

-Trocars of different gauges, cannulas and blunt punches.

-1 glass tube containing wire for needle cleaning is located in the housing beneath the trocars.

Case dimensions: 27.5 x 12 x 5.5 cm: in good condition, lined inside with purple velvet.

GENTILE marking inside the box