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Endpoint: Gyraldose



created on: 16/01/2026
by: Lo55o (14216)
 
 

Brand properties

General info :
Gyraldose is the brand name of an old antiseptic used for the intimate hygiene of ladies, which has disappeared from pharmacies.
It was produced by Établis Chatelain, 2 Rue De Valenciennes, Paris, France.

Gyraldose was created prior to 1918 and discontinued towards the end of the 1950s. Its exact composition and history are poorly known, as the Châtelain laboratory archives have been lost since the company was acquired by a Swiss company. This information comes from research by Lucie Coignerai-Devillers in Revue d'histoire de la pharmacie no. 276, cited in Courbevoie, berceau de la pharmacie française.

In 1918, the advertisement listed the ingredients as: "based on pyolisan, thymic acid ( thymol ), trioxymethylene ( 1,3,5-Trioxane ), and sulfated alumina (probably aluminum sulfate )." The following proportions are also found in a Catalan database of old medicines:

Pyolisan (sodi paratoluè, zinc sulfocloramina sulfofenat, sodium fluoride): 23
trioxymethylene: 0.50
thymic acid: 0.50
aluminum and potassium sulfate: 50
excipient : 25
In literature
Gyraldosis appeared in literature in 1933 in Marcel Aymé 's novel La Jument verte : the priest of Claquebue, "knowing that the bidet or gyraldosis have more subversive effects than an anti-clerical banquet on Good Friday, he protected his sheep from it."

In poetry, Gyraldose made its appearance in the work of Boris Vian between 1947 and 1949 in the collection Cantilènes en gelée where an eight-line poem entitled Chanson galante cites this essential product of femininity in an erotic setting also alluding to cunnilingus : "...In the morning, I will take my dose, and you will take in return, My love, your ration of Gyraldose."
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Submitted by : Lo55o (14216)
on : 16/01/2026