Syringe
name: label: Associated Name
content: Cook Laboratories
notes: label: Description
content: The Cook Laboratories, Inc., a Chicago firm that made bacterial vaccines, introduced the term “Carpule” in 1922, filed for a trademark, and used it for medications designed to be injected hypodermically. Some ads boasted that “In the Cook ‘CARPULE’ System, the mechanical aspects of Dental Anesthesia have been reduced to Scientific Simplicity.” Others described “a whole system of hypodermic anesthesia, perfected and simplified, with the medication in the Carpule—a glass cartridge, which insures its being as pure, accurate and active at the moment of injection as it was at the moment of manufacture.” The form was designed by Harvey Samuel Cook (1888-1924), a physician in Valparairso, Ind. who assigned his several patents to Cook Laboratories. The inscription on this example reads ““N. 107-D COOK LAB INC. CHICAGO / PATENTED.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Ad for “The Cook Carpule System” in The Practical Dental Journal 24 (Dec. 1924): 34.
label: Description
content: Ad in Hettinger’s Dental News 7 (1924): 37.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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.M-12677 [dup4]
label: catalog number
content: M-12677
label: accession number
content: 260892
objectType: label: Object Name
content: syringe
label: Other Terms
content: Hypodermic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (barrel material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (handle, finger rest material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (plunger material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (tip, screw material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 5 3/4 in x 2 5/8 in; 1.5875 cm x 14.605 cm x 6.6675 cm