Abstract: A means for applying traction to a medical patient which includes a pneumatic cylinder and piston and a means for pressurizing the cylinder so as to apply a predetermined traction force. One embodiment further includes a storage cylinder to minimize change in traction force with change in position of the piston and a hand operated pumping cylinder and piston mounted in the storage cylinder. Another embodiment utilizes an extraneous source of pneumatic pressure, pressure regulating valve and a hand operated relief valve to permit cyclic application of traction.

Abstract: A one piece plastic nasal splint is presized to fit the nasal passage, an isthmus bridging the columella to provide anterior fixation while a single suture provides posterior fixation.

Abstract: A flexible therapeutic anatomical support of form-fitting, compressive, heat-retaining elastic foam material, the supportive, compressive and movement-resisting forces of which are selectively reinforced and relieved, for supporting, protecting and resisting the movement of the muscles and skeletal structure at joints and other limb areas during pre-surgery conditioning, post-trauma, and post-surgery convalescence. A limb-ensheathing sleeve of sufficient length to cover the affected portion of the lib is fabricated from a sheet of foam neoprene material bent around to form a tube and adhesively secured at its seam edges with contact cement. The sleeve is configured according to measurements taken from the actual limb or joint after such measurements have been suitably modified to ensure that the resulting sleeve will provide the desired amount of support and compression.

Abstract: A multiple dosage syringe comprises a hollow barrel through which a piston slides by being pushed by a piston member protruding from the rear of the barrel so that liquid material within the barrel is discharged through a discharge member at the front end of the barrel. A plurality of longitudinally spaced stops protrude outwardly from the perimeter of the piston member which protrudes from the rear of the barrel so that the foremost stop abuts a flange at the rear of the barrel. To discharge a dosage this stop is broken off along a line of maximum weakness so that the stop can enter the barrel during the discharge of the dosage which is completed when the next stop strikes the flange. This process is repeated for each dosage.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for applying therapeutic eye drops to the eye by metering a predetermined volume of fluid and rapidly applying a pressure to one end of the metered fluid for forcing the fluid from a nozzle of means defining a small passageway such as an open-ended tube as a droplet having sufficient velocity to travel a generally horizontal distance in space to the eye. Unit dose application and multiple dose application are included and provision is made for preventing anticipatory blinking of the eye during self-administration.

Abstract: An adjustable antiptosis corset for human beings, to support viscera in general and to correct falling stomachs and the like in particular, comprising a resilient fabric to cover part of the rear and sides of the trunk of the bearer; the portion covering the rear is resilient in a vertical direction and the portions covering the sides are resilient in a horizontal direction, and a non-resilient ventral pocket member having a top access opening, said pocket member being connectable through adjustable self-fastening tapes to said side portions and which pocket member is provided with spaced-apart upstanding diverging whale-bone-like reinforcing members and separate parallel whale-bone-like reinforcing members, crossing said diverging whale-bone-like reinforcing members, and an unwrinkable, tapered cushion member having a thicker base portion, insertable in such pocket member, with said thicker base portion located on the bottom of said pocket member.

Abstract: A pediatric device to control, within selected limits, the extent that a child can twist his feet. As an advance over known, generally similar devices, the traverse-limits are embodied on components which have intermeshing teeth. As a consequence, the teeth not only hold the components in relative positions, but very minute and accurate position adjustments can be made therebetween, by merely changing the teeth that establish the engagement. If desired, the positional change can be as small as the pitch of a single tooth.