Specification of Richard Edward Hodges and William Brockedon
Subtitle: surgical instruments
Publisher: Great Seal Patent Office
Published: 1857
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Milking; Surgical Instruments; Urethra; Gunshot Wounds; Therapy; Rectum
Description: Patent for "surgical instruments to be introduced into passages or orifices in cases where it is desired that parts of the instruments may expand when within passages or orifices... for relieving the bowels, urinary organs, and other passages." It also has an "application to cows to extract milk" and "to plug up gun-shot and other wounds".
Notes: At head of title: A.D. 1851. No. 13,674.

"Richard Edward Hodges, of Southampton Row, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman and William Brockedon, of Devonshire Street, in the same county, gentleman".