Dila-Spray Vaginal Syringe
date: label: Date made
content: after 1926
name: label: maker
content: Youngs Rubber Corporation, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Merle Leland Youngs (1886-1958) was a businessman whose company, Fay and Youngs, was renamed the Youngs Rubber Corporation in 1919. That firm manufactured the Dila-Spray vaginal syringe. Trade-mark was registered in 1933.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ad for Dila Spra in Hartford Courant (Sept. 22, 1913), p. 6.
label: Description
content: Notice of Dila Spray in American Druggist (November 1936): 78.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mary E. and Joseph F. Melfi, Jr., Tupper's Drug Store, Summerville, South Carolina
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0698.184
label: accession number
content: 1980.0698
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0698.184
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Syringe, Vaginal
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5.5 cm x 21.9 cm x 9.6 cm; 2 3/16 in x 8 5/8 in x 3 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall, box: 2 1/8 in x 8 3/4 in x 3 7/8 in; 5.3975 cm x 22.225 cm x 9.8425 cm