"provang" meaning in English

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          "text": "One Englishman named Walter Rumsey invented an \"electuary\" of coffee to be applied with an instrument called a provang.",
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          "ref": "2017 July 5, Markman Ellis, Eighteenth-Century Coffee-House Culture, vol 4, Routledge, page 12:",
          "text": "In addition to using the provang, Rumsey proposed coffee and tobacco as effective remedies in creating a balanced humoural mixture in the stomach.",
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          "ref": "1954, Andrés Uribe Compuzano, Brown Gold: The Amazing Story of Coffee, Random House, page 13:",
          "text": "How Rumsey's patients could enjoy coffee after an encounter with the provang is impossible to understand.",
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        "A 17th century medical instrument for cleansing the stomach, consisting of a whale-bone rod, with a silk button on the end."
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