Dieulafoy Aspirator by Collin, c. 1890
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A French Dieulafoy-type aspirator used to pump liquid and substances such as mucus from the body. by Maison Collin et Cie of c.1890. The instrument bears a makers engraving ‘Aspirateur Dieulafoy, Collin et Cie’ and a retail engraving for ‘Salt & Son Birmingham’. The aspirator is constructed of nicle plated brass with ceramic nozzle, ratcheted plunger. It is engraved with a scale running at the length of the body and stands on a wooden base.
The Dieulafoy aspirator was invented by Paul Georges Dieulafoy (1839 – 1911) in 1869, a French physician and pathologist and holder of the chair of internal pathology at the Faculty of Medicine of Paris. In 1869 he was declared to the French Academy of Medicine as the inventor of the first surgical suction device, although the claim was, according to Dieulafoy, “immediately disputed” by inventors who wished “to claim for …[themselves] the discovery of aspiration.“
During his internship at the department of Professor Potain 1865 from 1869, Dieulafoy developed an ingenious aspirator system that made it possible to puncture any effusion. Dieulafoy described this aspirator which was presented at the Universal Exhibition in Vienna in 1873. (DIEULAFOY, Georges Traité de l’aspiration des liquide morbides. Paris, G. Masson 1873.) Measurements 26 Xx15 cm
