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Description: | none MANU Unsigned. late 19th early 20th century This sponge ended bristle probang was used to sounding for strictures (obstructions caused by eg scar tissue after swallowing a corrosive liquid) in the aesophagus and for pushing foreign objects into the stomach. It consisted of a flexible ? gutta percha tube down which a baleen rod connected to a brush of horse hair clamped at both ends. When the rod is pulled the horse hair fans out rather like a chimney sweeps brush. The strip of baleen iwas shaped at one end by heating in booiling water or steam and then twisted to form a grip. There is a small ball of natural sponge at the end of the instrument | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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