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probang|ˈprəʊbæŋ|
Also 7 provang(g, (provango).
[The name given by the inventor was provang, of unknown origin (but cf. provet = privet2), subsequently altered, prob. after probe n.]
A surgical instrument, consisting of a long slender strip of flexible material with a sponge, ball, button, or other attachment at the end, for introducing into the throat to apply a remedy or remove a foreign body. Also, a larger form of this employed in the case of choking cattle.
1657Howell in W. Rumsey Organon Salutis a viij, To..Judge Rumsey, upon his Provang, or rare pectorall Instrument. Ibid. b iv, Touching your Provang, or Whale-bone Instrument..it hath purchased much repute abroad among Forreiners. 1661Blount Glossogr. (ed. 2), Provango, an instrument made of Whalebone, to cleanse the stomack. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 166 Walter Rumsey..was the first that invented the Provangg, or Whalebone instrument to cleanse the throat and stomach. 1809B. Parr Lond. Med. Dict., Probang, a flexible piece of whalebone, with spunge fixed to the end. 1843R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxv. 311 An inflamed state of the œsophagus, caused by a clumsy probang roughly passed. 1849Stephens Bk. Farm (ed. 2) I. 296/2 The probang is 5 feet 1 inch in length, three quarters of an inch in diameter, with pewter cup and ball ends 1½ diameter. 1872O. W. Holmes Poet Breakf.-t. iii. (1885) 63 There were..Probes and Probangs. |