Syringe
name: label: maker
content: Novocol Chemical Manufacturing Company, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Steel syringe with an inscription that reads, in part: “NOVOCOL / BROOKLYN / N.Y.” and PAT. APPLIED FOR” and “Patent No. 1,839,695.” Mendel Nevin (1881-1950) was a Russian Jew who emigrated to the United States. In 1911, after having graduated from the New York College of Dentistry, he established the Novocal Chemical Manufacturing Co., to produce procaine (Novol) and other anesthetics that he had developed.
label: Description
content: Ref: Mendel Nevin, “Hypodermic Syringe,” U.S. Patent 1,839,695 (Jan. 5, 1932).
label: Description
content: 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
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: W. Harry Archer, D.D.S.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07131
label: catalog number
content: M-07131
label: accession number
content: 218892
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Syringe
label: Other Terms
content: Syringe; Hypodermic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (barrel, fenestrated material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (handle, double ring material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (plunger material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (tip, screw material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 2 7/8 in x 3/4 in; 15.24 cm x 7.3025 cm x 1.905 cm