Greeley's Hypodermic Unit, Atropine Sulphate
name: label: Associated Name
content: Greeley Laboratories
notes: label: Description
content: The first disposable syringes produced in large quantities were designed by James Thornton Greeley (1862-1929), a physician in Nashua, N.H. These were collapsible tin tubes, each with an attached needle, and each containing one dose of a specific medication. Those containing morphine were especially welcome on the battlefields of World War I.
label: Description
content: This cardboard box contains four tin tubes, each containing a medicament (atropine sulphate), and each with an applicator at one end. The inscription on the box reads “GREELEY / HYPODERMIC / UNIT / TRADE MARK / PATENTED / Guaranteed by Greeley Laboratories, Inc. / 665 Huntington Ave. Boston, Mass.” "No. 10 / Atropine Sulphate 1-150 gr. / Boric Acid 0.2%"
label: Description
content: Ref: James T. Greeley, M.D., “A New Device for Hypodermic Medication,” Journal of the American Medical Association 58 (1912): 779-780.
label: Description
content: James T. Greeley, “Hypodermic Syringe,” U.S. Patent 1,236,426 (Aug. 14, 1917), assigned to Greeley Laboratories, Inc., of New York.
label: Description
content: “Dr. James T. Greeley,” New York Times (Aug. 30, 1929), p. 13.
label: Description
content: “Dr. J. T. Greeley, Dead at Nashua,” The Boston Globe (Aug. 30, 1929), p. 9.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
topic: label: collection
content: Dr. C. Edmund Kells Collection
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. J. O. Pierson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-10655
label: catalog number
content: M-10655
label: accession number
content: 254077
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Needle Kit
label: Object Name
content: needles
label: Object Name
content: syringe needles
label: Object Name
content: needle set
label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Needle Kit; Hypodermic
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/8 in x 2 7/8 in x 5/8 in; 5.3975 cm x 7.3025 cm x 1.5875 cm