A large cylindrical glass bottle with medium-sized neck, a rimmed mouth at one end, and on the other end tapering to a circular opening and short glass tube; glass tube is inserted into a light brown/orange latex tube; distal end of latex tube is attached to a metal connector nipple with stopcock; …
A large cylindrical glass bottle with medium-sized neck, a rimmed mouth at one end, and on the other end tapering to a circular opening and short glass tube; glass tube is inserted into a light brown/orange latex tube; distal end of latex tube is attached to a metal connector nipple with stopcock; bottle is marked from 100 to 700 cc in green print
Number Of Parts
3
Part Names
a - bottle - Size: Length 29.0 cm. x Diameter 8.9 cm.
b - tube - Size: Length 1.42 m. x Width 1.0 cm.
c - nipple - Size: Length 3.9 cm. x Width 1.8 mm. x Depth 7.0 mm.
Provenance
Used in the Bladder Function Clinic, Kingston General Hospital, by Dr. Low between 1965 and 1996
(a) surface of bottle at base of neck is slightly mottled; line of print between "700 - 0 cc" is chipped as is the line above it; (b) disintegrating where it has been stretched to fit the glass bottle; #2: rubber tubing is cracked; #3: rubber requires special treatment.
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Person
Document
Other
Reference Comments
"Urological and Allied Diagnostic Instruments and High Frequency Equipment", American Cystoscope Makers, Inc., p. 146
all of 996.013, in particular 996.013.022a-c
Gillian Major
Research Facts
Filled with water which ran through the tube, a sterilizing chamber (which was attached to a recording cystometer), another tube, a catheter and thus into the bladder and urethra; used in conjunction with this equipment to measure pressure in the bladder and urethra; quite an antiquated system when it was retired in 1996