Abstract
The device shown in the illustration may be assembled at small cost by any plumber; it is an improvement over the usual method of obtaining gastric contents by the use of the bulb or Politzer bag. The large vertical portion is composed of 1¼ inch pipe and fittings and measures 38 inches over all, with a half-inch water gage attached to its upper half. Both extremities terminate in quarter-inch pipe, one end being connected by rubber tubing to an aspirating bottle, and the other end equipped with a cock and discharging into the wash stand basin, being a permanent fixture in proximity to it. Before use, the standpipe is filled with water to the level of A by connecting B and the wash stand faucet with a piece of rubber tubing. When in use the stomach tube is slipped over the glass tubing at C , its free end passed into
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