old suppository machine parts circa 1895

[green papaya]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...MESE:IT&viewitem=&item=300076512890&rd=1&rd=1

these parts were originally used in a suppository machine #3 mfg by Whitall & Tatum [1895]

found buried under an old pharmacy in Alameda, Ca

here's how the parts would have looked assembled on the original suppository machine

 

[Dapper Dan]

Hehehe... suppository... buried...

 

[CharlieH.]

Suppository machine? Is that one of Dr. Harvey Kellogg's favourite toys?

 

[Orgetorix]

Maybe it was used to make these.

 

[Benny Holiday]

In case, it should've stayed buried! lol

 

[green papaya]

suppository machines

notice the brass presses have different sized holes to make different type of suppositories, some were for rectal and some for vaginal suppositories lol

 

[jamespowers]

In case, it should've stayed buried! lol

Let's ask if it glows in the dark.

 

[Dapper Dan]

Over the summer, I worked at a pharmaceutical company (and yet, I'm an English major). One of the on-staff pharmacists had invented a suppository device called a "rectal rocket," which was basically a mold that also had a hole in it so that one could... putting this delicately... pass gas.

 

[Senator Jack]

That reminds me. I gotta haul my a$$ over to the proctologist.

 

[Mike in Seattle]

Over the summer, I worked at a pharmaceutical company (and yet, I'm an English major). One of the on-staff pharmacists had invented a suppository device called a "rectal rocket," which was basically a mold that also had a hole in it so that one could... putting this delicately... pass gas.

Well, I think we've reached a new low in posts on FL. lol lol

 

[Dapper Dan]

Well, Mike, you say that now. But we'll see what you say next time you need a suppository. lol

 

[Flying Scotsman]

Well, I think we've reached a new low in posts on FL. lol lol

Would you say it's hit bottom?

 

[feltfan]

I hate to be a killjoy, but having collected quack and vintage
medical devices for years, I've seen enough of these to know
that what you're looking at is a pill making machine.

Now some of these pills might have been used as suppositories.
But mostly it was used by pharmacists to press stuff into pills.
Yeah, in those days pharmacists assembled their own pills, they
didn't come from a carefully monitored factory.

That thing was probably used for the most part to create
pills of aspirin or laudanum or some inert substance for oral
application.

Now I do have some glass proctological and gynecological
electrodes I could post some time. Just the sight of them
is enough to make you clench enough... to break a glass electrode.

 

[green papaya]

suppository machine by Whitall & Tatum [1895]

http://www.collectmedicalantiques.com/apothecary2.html

from what I read here they said it's a suppository machine

 

[Absinthe_1900]

I hate to be a killjoy, but having collected quack and vintage
medical devices for years, I've seen enough of these to know
that what you're looking at is a pill making machine.

Visit the Pharmacy Museum in New Orleans, they have an interesting collection.

http://www.pharmacymuseum.org/

 

[MissHuff]

What a thread to read at 8AM.. makes me want to go back to bed and hide under a blanket! AACCK! glass electrods

 

[Girl Friday]

Yeah... this makes leeches seem no so bad.

 

[Mike in Seattle]

Well, Mike, you say that now. But we'll see what you say next time you need a suppository. lol

Yeah, if the "rocket" is any indication, can those that whistle or honk in different keys be that far off? "Was that an air-raid siren or was that your medication?"

(OK, OK, I'm slapping my own wrist already...)

 

[Dapper Dan]

Well, as I understand it, the rocket is strictly a practical thing. Like Louis Sullivan said, "Form follows function."

 

[Viola]

Glass...electrodes?!

I don't want to know what those are for.

-Viola