An Improved Anal Pessary or Appliance.
Year: 1894

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Anal Pessary or Appliance.
I, JULIUS LUTJE, of Gr. Bergstrasse 244, Altona, in the Empire of Germany,
Doctor of Medicine, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object to produce a pessary or appliance which may be
easily and painlessly inserted in the anus in or for the treatment or support of
hemorrhoids or piles.
The invention is shown in the annexed drawing, in which
Fig. 1 represents an exterior view of the appliance.
Fig. 2 a section through the saine being the shape it will assume when applied to
the anus.
Fig. 3 shows the appliance in the shape it will assume when in position, and
Fig. 4 illustrates a modified form of the appliance likewise in the shape assumed
when in position of use.
The appliance consists of a hollow casing or body of elongated form a made of
air-tight elastic material and which encloses in its interior a quantity of air, gas or
liquid, as the case may be, so that said contents are not allowed to escape.
When this appliance is inserted in the anus, say to one-half of its length so that
the other half is left protruding, that portion of the contents which exists in the
outside projecting part a' of the body a, can, by pressure exerted on this outer
part, be forced towards and into the inserted part of the appliance. By this
manipulation the body a above the compressed part becomes expanded and thus
the inserted part a³ of the appliance exerts pressure on the surrounding tissue
(see Fig. 3).
As the protruding part a¹ of the appliance is compressed to a less or greater
degree, the extension exerted on the tissue is lessened or increased.
In order to prevent the charge from returning on releasing the compressed part a¹
of the appliance, a caoutchouc ring d or any squeezing device or analogous clamping
arrangement may be applied (see Fig. 3).
Instead of expanding the inserted part a² of the appliance by compressing the
protruding part a', the casing a may also, by means of a hose or small tube a³
(see Fig. 4), be put in connection with a reservoir of gas or liquid and out of this
reservoir, gas or liquid be forced into the casing a, so as to expand the inserted
part a'.
In order furthermore to enable this appliance to be readily and painlessly applied
the following arrangement forming substantially the improvement of the present
invention is provided.
In the interior of the elastic body a one or more suitably shaped guiding rods e
are arranged so that by the aid of this rod or rods e, the body a can easily be
inserted in the anus before it is expanded as above described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
An improved anal pessary or appliance consisting of an elastic air-tight hollow
body having one or more rods e arranged inside it for assistance in its insertion into

page_text: the anus, whereupon pressure may be applied for local or general expansion of such
body substantially as set forth.
Dated this 18th day of April 1894.
R. HADDAN,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agent to Applicant.