Hypodermic injections in the treatment of neuralgia, rheumatism, gout and other diseases / by Antoine Ruppaner.

  • Ruppaner, Antoine, 1825-1892.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Hypodermic injections in the treatment of neuralgia, rheumatism, gout and other diseases / by Antoine Ruppaner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE INSTRUMENT, OPERATION, AND POINT OF INJECTION The success of the operation depends much upon the use of a proper instrument. We may employ either that of Travoy, used for the injection of per-chloride of iron, or that recommended by Ferguson for injecting a nsevus, or the simple instru- ment constructed by Young of Edinburgh, or Tiemann of New York. It consists of a barrel made either of glass or caoutchouc, containing a piston which is graduated. The former is, in my opinion, the only reli- able instrument for daily use, as the glass tube is graduated from one to twenty drops or more, and the amount of fluid to be in- jected is readily seen and regulated; an ad- vantage which is wanting in. the caoutchouc instrument, the piston of which is only