Hypodermic Syringe
date: label: date made
content: ca 1850
label: used date (as used by Dr. Edgar J. Farwell)
content: 1864-1876
notes: label: Description
content: Early hypodermic syringe with ivory handle and two needles in a wooden case. The "Dr. E. J. Farwell" signature on a small piece of paper refers to Edgar John Farwell (1839-1876), a physician who received his medical degree from the University of Vermont, and might have learned about hypodermic syringes while serving as a surgeon in the U.S. Army during the Civil War. After the war, Farwell practiced medicine in Dorset, Vermont. So too did. Sylvester Mason (1815-1873), a graduate of the Vermont Medical College, and an early owner of this syringe.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Katherine T. Hotchkiss
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09936
label: catalog number
content: M-09936
label: accession number
content: 238320
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Syringe Kit
label: Object Name
content: syringe kit
label: Other Terms
content: Syringe Kit; Hypodermic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (barrel material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (plunger material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (barrel material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (needles(2) material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (plunger material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (tip, screw material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 3 in x 1 5/8 in; 3.175 cm x 7.62 cm x 4.1275 cm