Mysterious Times

Alan Humphries, the Librarian of the Thackray Medical Museum in Leeds, identified this as a urethral syringe used to treat ailments in men by injecting substances directly into the penis.Sarah Bond, of London’s Museums of Health and Medicine, suggested that this is a syringe for delivering enemas rectally. There is a comparable example pictured in the Wellcome Trust’s online image library, dating from the late 19th century.

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