Clyster Syringe
date: label: date made
content: 1800 - 1850
notes: label: Description
content: Consists of a large cylinder or tube with three fillets on its exterior that has a wooden knob-handled plunger with stepped-top cover screwed on at one end and a small flat cap at the other. Wooden plunger shaft is socketed to a pair of disks with space in between for seal at bottom. Touchmark "I•LOWE" in raised serif letters in an arched rectangular surround on top of cover. No nozzle or other attachments.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
label: place used
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Medicine
label: Subject
content: Personal Hygiene
label: Subject
content: Veterinary Products
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Dr. Joseph H. Kler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0027.67
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0027.67
label: accession number
content: 1986.0027
objectType: label: Object Name
content: syringe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (cylinder, cap, ferrule, plunger disk material)
label: Physical Description
content: maple (plunger knob material)
label: Physical Description
content: beech (plunger shaft material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 3/8 in x 3 1/4 in; 28.8925 cm x 8.255 cm