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“ Compound Puncturator, Irrigator, Aspirator, and Drainer,” and in doing 
so said : 
Some time ago I directed the attention of the members of the Scottish 
Metropolitan Association to the beneficial effects of deep and repeated 
puncturing of indurated glands and fibromata. The good to be derived 
from the same operation in orchitis, mammitis, and parotiditis, is, I pre¬ 
sume, well known to most of you. Hitherto, the instrument employed by 
me for the purpose indicated has been a fine exploring needle, a suture- 
wire director, or a narrow-bladed bistoury, the use of either of these 
instruments necessitating frequent introduction and withdrawal, in order 
to accomplish the desired end. While puncturing a fibroma in the levator 
humerus of a horse, one of my students, who was assisting me (Mr. Wm. 
Calvert), asked if an instrument could not be constructed for the purpose 
of inflicting several punctures simultaneously. My answer was in the 
affirmative, and on thinking the matter over, I determined to utilise the 
same instrument for several other purposes. After a short correspondence 
with a London firm (Messrs. Evans and Wormull), I succeeded in convey¬ 
ing my ideas to them with sufficient clearness to enable them to manufacture 
the instrument which I now introduce to your notice. Before describing 
it I must assume that you are all acquainted with the benefits to be 
derived from irrigation with stimulants of certain forms of growths, and 
with antiseptics of sloughing erysipelatous and carbuncular tissues, as 
also with the use of drainers (canulse) for the dispersal of oedematous 
swellings. The instrument consists of a brass rose, into which are fitted 
seven short tubular projections; these again being provided with seven 
(movable) tubular needles, each having three or four perforations, at 
short intervals, a little distance from the point. By the use of small pings, 
one only of these needies, or as many as may be desired, can be employed 
at once. Eor the purpose of puncturing, the rose is fitted on to a large 
ebony handle, and for the purpose of aspirating, or of irrigating, on to a 
four-ounce brass syringe. When required to act as drainers, the needles 
may be introduced separately, and allowed to remain in situ as long as 
may be thought necessary. The syringe is also provided with a movable 
nozzle, so that it may be utilised as an ordinary syringe. The instrument 
is not yet complete, as I intend to have it fitted with a much larger tubular 
needle, so as to admit of its being used for intravenous injection, or for 
aspirating the bladder of small animals, or superficial cysts of any kind. 
Further, a graduated piece of glass introduced into the side would be of 
great advantage, as would also several other nozzles of different sizes. 
He then showed another instrument, which may be properly named 
“ Walley’s Compound Tubular Brace, with Surgical Bits,” and in explain¬ 
ing its uses said: 
In operating upon the rectum for fistulae, abscesses, haemorrhoids, &c., 
of large animals, in operations in the uterus, cervix, or os uteri, as for 
removal of tumours, in operations on the soft palate and posterior part of 
the mouth, and in embryotomy, I have sometimes felt much inconvenienced 
by not having a concealed instrument sufficiently large aud powerful to be 
manipulated from the outside, without having to carry a small instrument 
into the cavities mentioned concealed in the hand. Reasoning upon the 
matter, I resolved to attempt the construction of an instrument which 
might be utilised in a variety of ways. I have here, then, a flattened tube 
composed of German silver and brass, with a chequered ebony handle, the 
whole measuring eighteen inches long. The handle conceals a screw, and 
the tube a steel staff (the screw and staff being continuous) ; the former 
attached to and worked by a small brass wheel at the end ot the handle, 
the latter being provided at its free extremity with a movable slot, for the 
