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Artifact Name	Meinecke Perfection Bed and Douche Pan
Type of Object	Bedpan
Manufacturer	Meinecke & Company, Inc.
Place of Manufacture	New York (N.Y.)
Date of Manufacture	1900-1940
Time Period	Twentieth century
Dimensions	9 cm. x 28 cm. x 36 cm.
Physical Details	Ceramic bedpan with open top and handle. Long, toilet bowl-shaped opening with a lip for pouring. White ceramic. Stamp at front reads "Meinecke Perfection Bed and Douche Pan, The Most Comfortable and Sanitary Bed-Pan in the World. For Hospital and Home. Two U.S. Patents June 5, 1900. Also Pat. in Great Britain & Germany."
Medical Subject	Toilet Facilities
Other Subject	Bedpans -- History
Accession Number	2009.5.3
Type	Stillimage
Format	image/jp2
Rights Management	© VCU. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection	Medical Artifacts Collection
Contributor	Tompkins-McCaw Library. Special Collections & Archives
Digital Publisher	VCU Libraries
Local genre	medical artifact

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