Enema set

Made:: 1801-1900

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Enema set, to Read's patent, with syringe, tube, L-shaped rectal nozzle and valve pea, in case, English, probably 19th century

Details

Category:: Therapeutics

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A640575

Materials:: box, mahogany and box, velvet

Measurements:: box: length 221 mm
box: width 99 mm
box: height 39 mm

type:: enema syringes

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Parts

Syringe, piston action

Materials:: brass

Object Number:: A640575 Pt1

type:: syringes

Tube to connect syringe and nozzle

Materials:: gum elastic

Object Number:: A640575 Pt2

type:: tubes

L-shaped ivory rectal nozzle

Materials:: ivory

Object Number:: A640575 Pt3

type:: nozzles

Pea for syringe valve, possibly cuckoo

Pea for syringe valve

Pea for syringe valve, possibly cuckoo

Materials:: metal

Object Number:: A640575 Pt4

type:: valves

Enema set

Details

Parts

Syringe, piston action

Tube to connect syringe and nozzle

L-shaped ivory rectal nozzle

Pea for syringe valve

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