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Re: Nymph objects




I did find a picture of the suppository tool.  It
looks like the old style child's top, a flat disk
with a hollow wooden dowel through the center.  I
assume it also had a plunger to push the
suppository through the hollow dowel once the
device was inserted in the "foundament".  I can
only guess, but my guess is that the disk was
attached to keep someone from inserting the device
too far up the "foundament".  Suppositories were
herb mixtures coated in greases and fats so they
would slide easily, and one would hope that the
device was also lubricated before insertion.  :-)

I am only guessing again, but perhaps the bladder
also had a wooden disk attached, similar to the
picture in the Voynich, to keep one from inserting
the tip of the bladder too far.

Hospital emergency rooms have long become used to patients presenting with objects (both spectacular and mundane) inserted into such orifices beyond the point of easy retrieval - vibrating mobile phones being only the most recent example. :-/


So - in this context, a flat restraining disk would seem a *particularly* sensible addition. :-)