Syringe
name: label: maker
content: Parke, Davis and Company
notes: label: Description
content: This seems to be an example of the “All metal, dental syringe, improved” offered by Parke, Davis & Co. The “PRINZ” inscription on the barrel refers to Hermann Prinz (1868-1957), a prominent dentist from Germany who moved to the United States in 1896, taught in St. Louis and then in Philadelphia, and promoted the use of Novocaine.
label: Description
content: Ref: Parke, Davis & Co., A Dental Manual of Therapeutics and Materia Medica (Detroit, 1905), p. 59.
label: Description
content: 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 Dr. James E. Aiguier
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.260892.218
label: accession number
content: 260892
label: catalog number
content: 260892.218
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Syringe
label: Other Terms
content: Syringe; Hypodermic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (needle, abscess material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (barrel, fenestrated material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (handle, finger rest material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (tip, screw material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 5/8 in x 2 1/2 in x 5/8 in; 11.7475 cm x 6.35 cm x 1.5875 cm