Name this medical device

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CLUES:
1. You may have seen it on TV about 25 years ago.
2. You may have seen it done with a third closed bottle replacing the bucket; it would have a clampable air vent in each of the last two bottles, which could exchange places (superior versus inferior) allowing water to run from one to the other while allowing air to be displaced from the receiving (inferior) bottle, but no air allowed into the draining (superior) bottle.

I know USAF might get this, and maybe Rid if he's snooping.
;)

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Didn't they use something like that in an episode of MASH once?
 
It's the 1970s and before version of a Pleurevac. In more fancy terms, "a water seal chest drain"
 
A water seal for a chest tube.
 
Hmm, interesting. Is there a way to refill water in the superior bottle when it runs out, or do you just have to change the bottles out?

EDIT: I suppose when the superior bottle ran out, that would mean the inferior bottle was full, so you have to change them out anyway.
 
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EDIT: I suppose when the superior bottle ran out, that would mean the inferior bottle was full, so you have to change them out anyway.

Not necessarily since the primary thing coming out of the body is air, so the lower bottle isn't going to fill up nearly as fast as the top bottle will empty.

Now what did take me a minute was to realize why the top bottle was inverted.
 
YOu can image it this way (sorry, I can't post a picture)

Two big pickle jars on a teeter-totter that still keeps them upright. Raise bottle A, clamp off the air outlet, attach the collector tube to it. Lower bottle B, open the air outlet, having already taken off and clamped shut the collector inlet. It was not for emergency use. (Close there USAF).

No USAF it is older than the 1950's. Suction without electricity, as Col Potte wold say . CLUE wink wink.

Harry Morgan, character actor, RIP.


edit: that gives it away if you use Google.
 
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NV, hear of YOUTUBE or HOOLOO?

Of course, you're that young!
 
I learned how to build one in physio lab :)
 
Sperm don't GET fertilized...

We're wandering.

OK, here's the answer....
Last chance...yell it out....
 
Some way to drain an effusion?

or evacuate excess air buildup, say, pneumo...?
 
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We're wandering.

OK, here's the answer....
Last chance...yell it out....

you can drain air or liquid from it, it doesn't matter.
 
The venerable Wangensteen Suction Device!

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Oh, that wild and wacky Ogden Nash!
 
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