Hypodermic Needles
name: label: maker
content: Novocol Chemical Manufacturing Company, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Mendel Nevin (1881-1950) was a Russian Jew who emigrated to the United States and graduated from the New York College of Dentistry. In 1911, he established the Novocal Chemical Manufacturing Co., to manufacture procaine (novol) and other anesthetics that he had developed. This cardboard box has a “Novol / ANESTUBE / NEEDLES” inscription.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ad for Procaine (Novol) in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences 167 (June 1924), p. 28.
label: Description
content: “DR. MENDEL NEVIN, MANUFACTURER, 69,” New York Times (Nov. 11, 1950), p. 13.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Doris H. Bratten (Mrs. Roscoe C. Bratten, D.D.S.)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.312608.413
label: catalog number
content: 312608.413
label: accession number
content: 312608
objectType: label: Object Name
content: syringe needles
label: Other Terms
content: Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 1/2 in x 4 in; 1.27 cm x 1.27 cm x 10.16 cm