mouth-speculum

Updated: June 13, 2025

I had, however, a mouth-speculum which also acted as a gag, and, having propped the patient's mouth open with this, I hastily slipped off one of the rubber tubes from my stethoscope and inserted into one end of it a vulcanite ear-speculum to serve as a funnel.

R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman - The Mystery of 31 New Inn