[Patented Dec. 31, 1901; Nov. 14, 1905.]
Figures 18, 21, 22, and 23.
18, Reservoir; 21, hard rubber handle; 22, metal handle; 23, metal handle, hard rubber cone, and enema point; 19, lamp support; 20, lamp; 33, rubber tube and shut-off; 24, glass bottle; 27, hard rubber anal cone; 29, valve; 28, enema point; 25 and 26, recurrent douche points; 30, glass bottle; 31, hard rubber cone; 32, enema point.
Figure [24], Page 120, illustrates the author’s rubber enema appliance, The Niagara Fountain Syringe, holding about two gallons of water.
The Internal and External Fountain Bath is an appliance that I have devised and supplied to my patients for many years with most satisfactory results in every particular. Several other enemata and recurrent douche instruments which I have used did not wholly meet the requirements in capacity or aseptic features; but long use of this apparatus in all the various bowel troubles has demonstrated, to me as well as to my students and patients, that the instrument is the best that can be made, perfectly meeting all the requirements essential for scientific results.
Features and Uses.
The Fountain Bath is the product of necessity, effort, and long experience in accomplishing a definite purpose fully and properly. Figure 18 illustrates a large enamelled metal reservoir for water. Figure 21 shows a hard rubber combined enema and recurrent douche appliance for the application of water to the mucous membrane of the large intestine, the temperature of which should range from ninety to one hundred and thirty-five degrees or more. To one end of the handle is attached a hard rubber anal cone (Figure 27), inside of which is a valve (Figure 29), which is opened and closed by turning the handle, permitting the water to pass through the rectal point (Figure 25), or (Figure 26) into the bowels and return into the toilet basin without removing the point. At the other end of the handle is attached a glass reservoir for the use of oils. Figure 22 is a metal handle with a glass reservoir and a hard rubber anal cone. Figure 23 is a metal handle without glass reservoir, and both are intended for the use of water at a temperature of from ninety to one hundred and five or one hundred and ten degrees. A thermometer is absolutely necessary to determine the temperature of the water during its use as a depurent and antiphlogistic remedy. The heating appliance will keep the water at a desired temperature during its application, which is a very essential feature indeed.
Water Capacity.