IMPROVEMENTS IN VAGINAL SYRINGES
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Ernest de Pass, of the Office for British & Foreign
Patents, 68, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent Agent, for an
invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN VAGINAL SYRINGES."-A communication
from abroad by Phineas Lawrence, temporarily residing at New York, in the
United States of America.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Ernest de Pass at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st May 1882.
ERNEST DE PASS of the Office for British & Foreign Patents 68 Fleet Street,
in the City of London, Patent Agent. "IMPROVEMENTS IN VAGINAL SYRINGES,"
a communication from abroad by Phineas Lawrence temporarily residing at
New York, in the United States of America.
This Invention relates to improvements in vaginal syringes and is based upon
the new principle, that the vagina being a dilatable tube, closed at one end, can
only be cleansed by injecting fluid into it after the mouth of the vagina is closed,
so that the injected fluid expands the innumerable number of folds, in which the
vaginal mucous lining habitually lies.
The improved syringe consists of a bulb and a nozzle, made of soft rubber, in
one piece, the nozzle constituting the essential feature of the invention.
This nozzle, preferably called obturator, or vaginal plug, is of such a shape and
size as to close the vagina itself, and not merely the vulva. It is made of soft
rubber, of different degrees of thickness, as follows:-At the nozzle proper, or
discharge orifice, the material is thicker or heavier than in the middle of the
obturator; and at the base, it is still thicker. By this distribution of material, an
amount of elasticity is produced which causes the obturator to readily and perfectly
adapt itself to any vaginal mouth when it is but gently pressed into the part.
The bulb is made of rubber sufficiently heavy to have suction power to withdraw
the injected fluid.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Ernest de Pass in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
27th October 1882.
"
ERNEST DE PASS, of the Office for British and Foreign Patents, 68 Fleet Street,
in the City of London, Patent Agent, "IMPROVEMENTS IN VAGINAL SYRINGES."
A communication from abroad by Phineas Lawrence temporarily residing at
New York, in the United States of America.
This Invention relates to improvements in vaginal syringes, and is based upon
the new principle "that, the vagina being a dilatable tube, closed at one end, can
only be cleansed by injecting fluid into it after the mouth of the vagina is closed,
so that the injected fluid expands the innumerable number of folds in which the
vaginal mucous lining habitually lies."
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This improved syringe consists of a bulb A, and a nozzle B, made of soft rubber,
in one piece, the nozzle constituting the essential feature of the invention. This
nozzle, preferably called obturator or vaginal plug, is of the shape shewn in the
drawing, and is of such a size as to close the vagina itself, and not merely the
vulva. This obturator or plug is, according to this invention, made of soft rubber
of different degrees of thickness, as follows. At the nozzle proper, or discharge
orifice a, the rubber is thicker and heavier than in the middle b, of the obturator,
and at the base c, it is still thicker. By this distribution of the material an
amount of elasticity is produced which causes the obturator to readily and perfectly
adapt itself to any vaginal mouth, when it is but gently pressed into the part.
The bulb is made of rubber sufficiently heavy to have suction power to withdraw
the injected fluid.
By means of this invention, a fluid can be injected into the fully dilated vagina,
and the injection brought into perfect contact with all portions of its mucous
lining the injected fluid can be withdrawn, without spilling; a medicated solution,
or hot water, can be retained in the parts for any desired period of time; and, by
repeatedly injecting and withdrawing, the parts, can be cleansed more thoroughly
than by any other known instrument.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same may be performed, I declare that I claim.
First. A vaginal syringe, consisting of a vaginal plug or obturator, and a bulb,
made of soft rubber, in one piece, as described and shewn, whereby fluid may be
injected and withdrawn without spilling:
Second. Constructing the vaginal plug or obturator of soft rubber of different
degrees of thickness, as described, and shewn, for the purposes set forth.
Third. A vaginal plug or obturator, as herein described and shewn, in com-
bination with a bulb made of soft rubber, in one piece.
In witness whereof I the said Ernest de Pass have hereunto set my hand
and seal this Twenty fourth day of October, in the year 1882.