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Dr Potain's vacuum cleaner - Antique medical instrument - H.DUTAR
  • Dr Potain's vacuum cleaner - Antique medical instrument - H.DUTAR
  • Dr Potain's vacuum cleaner - Antique medical instrument - H.DUTAR
  • Dr Potain's vacuum cleaner - Antique medical instrument - H.DUTAR
  • Dr Potain's vacuum cleaner - Antique medical instrument - H.DUTAR
  • Dr Potain's vacuum cleaner - Antique medical instrument - H.DUTAR
  • Dr Potain's vacuum cleaner - Antique medical instrument - H.DUTAR
  • Dr Potain's vacuum cleaner - Antique medical instrument - H.DUTAR
  • Dr Potain's vacuum cleaner - Antique medical instrument - H.DUTAR
  • Dr Potain's vacuum cleaner - Antique medical instrument - H.DUTAR
  • Dr Potain's vacuum cleaner - Antique medical instrument - H.DUTAR

Dr Potain's vacuum cleaner in its case - Antique medical instrument - Beginning XXth - manufacturer H.DUTAR

€205.00

Dr Potain vacuum cleaner in its case

Early 20th century - 1900

Antique medical instrument from manufacturer H.DUTAR in Paris

Description

Dr. Potain's aspirator in its felt case

Early 20th century - 1900

By surgical instrument manufacturer H.DUTAR, 21 rue de Turbigo, Paris. Manufacturer active around 1907/1910

This instrument was used to remove fluids, particularly in cases of pleurisy, which is an inflammation of the pleura, the membrane surrounding the lungs, and which often causes fluid to build up in the pleural cavity.

It could also be used to remove urine from a retained bladder or gas from an intestine strangulated by a hernia. However, it could also be used to inject fluid.

(Source: Rennes Hospital Heritage Conservatory).

The box is complete, but the rubber tubes have not survived the passage of time; the rubber has hardened and breaks into small pieces when handled.

Includes:

-A steel pump with two nozzles at the end.

-A hollow metal rod with two channels branching into two branches, each equipped with a tap.

-Trocar needles of different sizes, cannulas, and blunt punches.

-1 glass tube that contained the metal wires for cleaning the needles is located in the compartment under the trocars.

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

H.DUTAR marking on the interior felt.

Case covered with black grained leather exterior with hot-stamped piping on the top. Push-button lock. Typical of cases produced between 1870 and 1910.

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