Syringe
name: label: maker
content: Parke, Davis and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Hermann Prinz (1868-1957) was a prominent dentist from Germany who moved to the United States in 1896, and taught in St. Louis and then in Philadelphia. This steel syringe with a “PRINZ” inscription was probably made by Parke, Davis & Co., and incorporated suggestions made by Prinz.
label: Description
content: Ref: Hermann Prinz, Dental Materia Medica and Therapeutics (St. Louis, 1909), p. 469.
label: Description
content: “Dr. Hermann Prinze, Scientist, Educator,” New York Times (Nov. 26, 1957), p. 33.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09219
label: catalog number
content: M-09219
label: accession number
content: 218383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Syringes
label: Object Name
content: syringe, dental
label: Object Name
content: syringe
label: Other Terms
content: Syringes; Hypodermic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: handle, finger rest (?? material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (plunger, thumb rest material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (?? material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (barrell material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (tip, screw material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 2 1/8 in x 1/2 in; 12.7 cm x 5.3975 cm x 1.27 cm