What Was Old is New Again

These days, 4 quart bags are pretty common. But they go back a long way. Take a look at this box:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Wood-box-for-Ideal-Water-Bottle-Fountain-Syringe-beautiful-A/312834901766

Note the 1 Gallon capacity. A little research finds this:

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/34/c8/78/1a185d6cb22911/US411954.pdf

A coincidence? Perhaps, but I doubt it. So it's quite obvious that there were 1 gallon bags for sale, and likely in use, 130 years ago.

Apparently, some people in the Victorian era received mighty enemas too.

I have several old reprints of Sear's catalogs, and all of them, including the original 1939 one carried at least one full 4qt. type of bag. They were usually listed as their "good" "better", and "best" types.

The '39 catalog has a 'sit on' bag made by Davol that is similar to the JBL bags.

Dan

Sear was quite forward thinking. I'm not sure about other things, but they certainly sold innovative enema equipment and bulb douches too.

Examples include:

A Transparent Combination Syringe

Fountain syringes with big nozzles with shields typical of bulb douches

Contoured nozzle bulb douches.

A bulb douche with a bayonet port on the bottom for fast fill.

The sit-on JBL knockoff bag.

A Fountain (maybe Combination) syringe with Higgenson style pump in the hose.

Many of these items were made by Faultless, but were Sears branded. I think Sears rarely manufactured their own stuff.

I happen to have a photo of my Sears transparent combo syringe in the photo gallery. I snagged it fairly recently and it was reportedly "new". It is in "like new" condition.