An Improved Vaginal Syringe.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 16th June, 1891-Accepted, 18th July, 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Vaginal Syringe.
I Dr. EWALD SCHREIBER, Practising Physician of 13 Wolfsstrasse Cologne-on-
the-Rhine in the Empire of Germany do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to a syringe which has for its object to rinse the vagina
in a convenient manner so that the outer parts of the body and the linen should
not be wetted. This syringe is so arranged that the liquid injection comes first
into contact with the upper part of the vagina then rinses the walls thereof and
finally issues through the labia without requiring the use of any special receptacle
to hold the injection beyond the syringe proper.
The syringe is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which
Figure 1 is an outside view and Figure 2 a vertical section of the same-
Figures 3 and 4 being horizontal sections of the said syringe.
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In the conical bulb a furnished with two tubular outlets b and c is arranged the
vaginal end piece which is allowed a certain amount of play at o and emerges out.
of the tube c by which it is surrounded. The inner or lower end of the vaginal
piece is held by an india rubber tube which assumes the form of a spherical
bulbe in the centre and embraces the piece j as well as the tube c so as to form
an air tight connection therewith.
An india rubber pipe g is fixed to the outlet 6 of the conical bulb a.
The pipe is furnished at d with a pressure valve-at e with a spherical
extension and at with a suction valve. At h¹ a tube p is inserted in the pipe /
the tube g being placed over the end p' of this tube p after the syringe is filled
so as to form a tight connection between the pipes y and h.
By withdrawing the end of the pipe with the tubular end p' from the pipe g
and immersing the same in a reservoir filled with the liquid injection while
alternately pressing and releasing the spherical bulb e the liquid will enter
through and towards the bulbe fill the latter and ascend subsequently through
the valve d as far as the rose outlet or nozzle n of the vaginal piece j. The pipe
end is now connected with the pipe y by means of the pipe p and the conical
bulb a is pressed within the vagina in such a manner that the small back flow
openings Figure 2 formed in the said bulb may be placed inside the vagina so
that the closing muscles of the latter should lay upon kl and m.
By alternately pressing and releasing the bulbe the liquid is discharged through
the openings n of the piece; in the upper part of the vagina close to the neck of
the womb whence it descends along the vaginal walls to return through the labia
and the openings i¹ and o into the bulb a as the latter effectually closes the vaginal
orifice the flow of liquid being assisted by the exhaustive action of efg and being
finally discharged through the outlet b and the tube g.
The vaginal end piece j may be made of two telescopic parts the upper part
being furnished with the openings n and sliding in the lower part which extends in
the bulb in order to be able to adjust the length of the vaginal end piece which
projects out of the bulb to fit the size of the vagina.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
In a vaginal syringe the combination of an extensible pipe j with a conical bulb a
which is introduced in the vagina so as to close the latter outwardly and internally
admits through the ananings : 1 the liquid which has haan ininated through L

page_text: spherical bulb e and the pipe j into the vagina so that the said liquid may return
therethrough substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the drawings hereunto annexed.
Dated this 16th day of June 1891.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Patentee.