Rare & Early Mayer & Meltzer inhaler mouth gag for anesthesia, circa 1870s’
€800
Circa
1870
Country of manufacture
UK and Ireland
Description
An early and rare both dentistry/ENT device and anesthesia device.
This classic, but early, Ferguson’s type mouth gag is signed by the London maker, Mayer & Meltzer, of which the partnership was from 1869 to the early 1880s’. The present example is datable from the 1870s’.
But on this classic form of mouth gag is added two metal tubes running along the arm of the gag and allowing, with a Junker’s apparatus, to introduce chloroform vapour during operation upon the mouth.
See the last picture for an illustration of this very rare anesthesia mouth gag from Treve, A System of Surgery, 1895, page 279.
Despite some traces of uses and old rust, the condition is excellent and the instrument is complete and in perfect working order.
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Dealer information
Le Zograscope
Established by Alexandre Piffault in 2014 and based in Paris at 5 rue de Condé, 75006, very close to Odéon, Le Zograscope specializes in antique and rare books in Science, Medicine and Technology, and rare antique instruments in the same fields. We have especially a strong interest in early and continental microscopy, early and special mathematical/drawing instruments, medical and surgical instrument, and rare technology.
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