EXCUTIA VENTRICULI
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An instrument, composed of iron or brass wire, at one of the extremities of which is a pencil of bristles. Some ancient authors proposed this to extract foreign bodies from the oesophagus, as well as to cleanse the stomach of viscid and tenacious matters adhering to it.
By Robley Dunglison
