A description of Read's patent syringe, or, Stomach pump, and lavement apparatus : with directions for its employment in the following operations, viz.: extracting poison from the stomach : administering clysters : introducing tobacco fumes into the bowels : transfusion of blood & venous injections : drawing off the urine : injecting the bladder : female injections : administraiton of food and medicine : drawing the breasts : injecting the wounds inflicted by rabid animals, thereby preventing hydrophobia, &c. &c. : containing also testimonials of its superior utility, and a tabular view of poisons and antidotes, from professional authority / by John Read.

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Credit: A description of Read's patent syringe, or, Stomach pump, and lavement apparatus : with directions for its employment in the following operations, viz.: extracting poison from the stomach : administering clysters : introducing tobacco fumes into the bowels : transfusion of blood & venous injections : drawing off the urine : injecting the bladder : female injections : administraiton of food and medicine : drawing the breasts : injecting the wounds inflicted by rabid animals, thereby preventing hydrophobia, &c. &c. : containing also testimonials of its superior utility, and a tabular view of poisons and antidotes, from professional authority / by John Read. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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