"Vim" Forsbeck Needle Rack for Group Immunization
date: label: date made
content: before 1980
name: label: maker
content: MacGregor Instrument Company
notes: label: Description
content: Plastic rack with 28 steel hypodermic needles, and inscriptions that read "'VIM' FORSBECK NEEDLE RACK / FOR GROUP IMMUNIZATION" and "MACGREGOR INST. CO. / NEEDHAM, MASS. U.S.A." Filip C. Forsbeck (d. 1940) was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the University of Chicago Medical School who spent his brief career as an epidemiologist.
label: Description
content: Ref: Filip C. Forsbeck, “An Outfit for Group Immunization Including an Automatic Syringe and a Needle Rack,” American Journal of Public Health (19xx): 1407-1409.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Needham
label: used
content: United States: Florida, Orange
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Antibody Initiative: Infectious Disease, Allergy, and Immunotherapy Collections
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Orange County Health Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0851.06
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0851.06
label: accession number
content: 1980.0851
objectType: label: Object Name
content: needle rack
label: Object Name
content: needle, syringe, vaccine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (syringes material)
label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (tray and rack material)
label: Measurements
content: tray of needles: 1.5 cm x 12.1 cm; 9/16 in x 4 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: rack: 2.5 cm x 13.8 cm; in x 5 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3.2 cm x 13.8 cm; 1 1/4 in x 5 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 5 1/2 in; 4.445 cm x 13.97 cm