. The science and practice of medicine . Professor Wintrich modified these tubes by having them made sepa-rate, bent the small end of the tube to be placed in the liquid to a rightangle, and bent the one through which the air or steam was to pass to aproper position, and bound them together by an India-rubber band (). These tubes can be made with free extremities of several inches inlength, and can be passed into the different cavities; the spray generatedwithin them, being thus brought, with a certain amount of force, into directcontact with the diseased surfaces. They can be made of al
. The science and practice of medicine . Professor Wintrich modified these tubes by having them made sepa-rate, bent the small end of the tube to be placed in the liquid to a rightangle, and bent the one through which the air or steam was to pass to aproper position, and bound them together by an India-rubber band (). These tubes can be made with free extremities of several inches inlength, and can be passed into the different cavities; the spray generatedwithin them, being thus brought, with a certain amount of force, into directcontact with the diseased surfaces. They can be made of all sizes andof different curves, to be passed up the nostril, as in the treatment ofcatarrh; to be placed in the ear, and reach the membrane of the tympa-num ; to be applied near the back of the throat, or immediately over theentrance of the larynx (Fig. 52); thus furnishing means for local treat-ment, and replacing the sponge probang. Fig. * Wintrich, Modification of Bergsons Tubes (Da Costa). f Bergsons Tubes with Winkle India-rubber Bug. X Maunders Atomizer, with Bergsons Tubes and Dr. Andrew Clarkes Hand-ball. TREATMENT OF DISEASES BY ATOMIZED FLUIDS. 825 The pulverizing current of air is supplied by the mouth, or by a bellows,or a Davidsons syringe, or what is still better, by one of Dr. AndrewClarkes handballs, adapted to Maunders Atomizer (Fig. 53). The well-known instrument of Dr. Richardson, of London (Fig. 54), forthe production of local anaesthesia, acts upon the same principle, and isan excellent atomizer. It will, by a simple arrangement,—the insertionof a slender wire in the spray-tube,—give either a fine or coarse mist.* Fig. 54.| ^Sa*,,
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