Hypodermic Syringe
name: label: maker
content: Becton, Dickinson and Company
notes: label: Description
content: 5 cc. glass and steel hypodermic syringe with a “LUER PAT. 1897 / Becton, Dickinson & Co.” inscription, in a steel case. Hermann Adolf Wűlfing-Lűer (1836-1909) was a surgical instrument maker in Paris; his wife, Jeanne Amélie Lüer (1842-1909), was the talented daughter of Amatus Lüer, another surgical instrument maker in Paris. Working together, Hermann and Amélie developed a glass hypdermic syringe which was unveiled in 1894. Hermann then obtained patents in several countries. The newly-established American firm of Becton, Dickinson was advertising Luer all-glass hypodermic syringes by late 1897.
label: Description
content: Ref: Hermann Wulfing Lűer, of Paris, “Syringe,” U.S. Patent 583,382 (May 25, 1897), assigned to William Theodore Georgen, of New York.
label: Description
content: Becton, Dickinson ad in Medical News 71 (Dec. 25, 1897): 15.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. James E. Aiguier
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.260892.175
label: accession number
content: 260892
label: catalog number
content: 260892.175
objectType: label: Object Name
content: syringe kit
label: Other Terms
content: Hypodermic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (barrel material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (plunger material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (tip, force material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (case, needle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (needle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 4 3/4 in x 1 7/8 in; 2.2225 cm x 12.065 cm x 4.7625 cm