Dila-Spray Vaginal Syringe
Dila-Spray Vaginal Syringe
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- Description
- 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.
- Ref: Ad for Dila Spra in Hartford Courant (Sept. 22, 1913), p. 6.
- Notice of Dila Spray in American Druggist (November 1936): 78.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Syringe, Vaginal
- Date made
- after 1926
- maker
- Youngs Rubber Corporation, Inc.
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- rubber (overall material)
- Measurements
- 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
- 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
- ID Number
- 1980.0698.184
- accession number
- 1980.0698
- catalog number
- 1980.0698.184
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mary E. and Joseph F. Melfi, Jr., Tupper's Drug Store, Summerville, South Carolina
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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