AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR VAGINAL INJECTIONS
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Hector Auguste Dufrené, of No. 10, Rue de la Fidélité,
Paris, in the Republic of France, and 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Civil
Engineer and Patent Agent, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS
FOR VAGINAL INJECTIONS." A communication from Monsieur Arsène Audouin,
of No. 69, Rue de Lille, Angoulême, in the Republic of France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Hector Auguste Dufrené at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd May 1878.
HECTOR AUGUSTE DUFRENÉ, of No. 10, Rue de la Fidélité, Paris, in the
Republic of France, and 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Civil Engineer and
Patent Agent. "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR VAGINAL INJECTIONS." [A com-
munication from Monsieur Arsène Audouin, of No. 69, Rue de Lille, Angoulême, in
the Republic of France.]
The Invention communicated to me consists in the construction of an apparatus
for giving vaginal injections, either continuous or intermittent, and while the
patient is in a horizontal position.
The apparatus is constructed of a basin, on which the person to be operated on
sits, the back of the person resting on a moveable back support and the feet on
suitable foot rests. An upper receiver communicates by means of a pipe with an
injection pipe of a syringe, or by means of a syphon supplying itself by a second
syringe pipe, in such a manner as to give a constant jet whilst the diseased patient
is placed in a horizontal position.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Hector Auguste Dufrené in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
23rd November 1878.
HECTOR AUGUSTE DUFRENÉ, of No. 10, Rue de la Fidélité, Paris, in the Republic
of France, and 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Civil Engineer and Patent
Agent. "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR VAGINAL INJECTIONS." A communication
from Monsieur Arsène Audouin, of No. 69, Rue de Lille, Angoulême, in the
Republic of France.
The Invention communicated to me consists in the construction of an apparatus
for giving vaginal injections, either continuous or intermittent, and while the
patient is in a horizontal position.
The apparatus is constructed of a basin, on which the person to be operated on
site, the back of the person rosting on a moveable back support and the feet on
suitable foot rests. An upper receiver communicates by means of a pipe with an
injection pipe of a syringe, or by means of a syphon supplying itself by a second
syringe pipe in such a manner as to give a constant jet whilst the patient is placed
in a horizontal position.
But to make the Invention communicated to me better understood, I will pro-
ceed to describe the same by reference to the accompanying Drawing, in which
Figure 1 is a longitudinal section; Figure 2, a transverse section; and Figure 3, a
perspective view of the improved apparatus. Figures 4, 5, and 6, views of the
basin.
.H is the basin on which the patient sits; J, the moveable back or support, which,
by means of the rack K, may be fixed at the desired inclination; R are the foot
rests. One of the tubes is introduced into the vagina, and the corresponding cock
is opened; the basin H receiving the water discharges it into the vessel O. The
basin H may be inclined as required, and can be placed under the patient, who can
thus receive the injection in bed. A is the upper receiver, made of zinc and
furnished with two cocks, one for the water and the other for the injection, and the
bottom is placed about three feet three inches from the ground. It is provided
with a syphon B, arranged so that the water entirely covers it. This pipe serves
for the water. The iron legs N serve to prevent the seat from tilting backwards,
and the whole can be easily taken to pieces. For this purpose, the cocks are
unscrewed from the receivers, the receiver and platform are taken down and the
whole is placed in the vessel O; the legs N are pushed close to the legs L; the rack
is taken off; the back J closed up; the bracket E is turned; the stand or
pedestal D is folded by means of its hinge C on the back J, and the apparatus,
thus taken to pieces, will occupy but little space.
"Having thus described the nature of the Invention communicated to me, what is
claimed is,
The general arrangement and construction of the improved apparatus for vaginal
injections, as herein-before described, and represented in the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Hector Auguste Dufrené, have hereto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
הזוגו גוזזת.