The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 126
adily than the tube. Such instruments we have in Van Buren's sounds, which are slightly curved at the end, and a little conical. Being made of solid metal, and nickel-plated, they traverse the urethra with sin- gular facility. Otis's sounds also answer admirably for this purpose. Evacuating… … force of any movement of the appa- ratus, and, what is more important, allows the operator to hold the bulb on a level with the water in the blad- der, or considerably below it. The exhaust then acts as a siphon, and readily draws off the water. The fragments gravitate to the bottom of the bulb,…
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