Dieulafoy Subcutaneous Pneumatic Aspirator

Signed 'M[ais]on CHARRIÈRE ROBERT & COLLIN à Paris', [1873], set in its original black shagreen box, interior trimmed with purple velvet and satin. It was during his internship in the department of Professor Potain (1865 to 1869) that Dieulafoy developed an ingenious aspirator system that made it possible to puncture any effusion. The instrument bears the following inscription engraved on its body: "562 Robert & Collin brevets SGDG 8423". When Jules Charrière died of tuberculosis in 1866, he handed over his business to Robert & Collin, his students, who published their first catalogue in 1867. Collin continued to run the "Maison Charrière, Collin et Cie" alone from 1876. Paul Georges DIEULAFOY (1839-1911), holder of the chair of internal pathology at the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, 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.) The instrument is represented in the catalogue of the Maison Charrière - Collin, General catalogue, Paris, 1894, p. 96, fig. 381. Early model with only one needle present, the rubber as is often the case has broken.