Hypodermic Syringe
date: label: date made
content: ca 1940
name: label: maker
content: Eli Lilly and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Cardboard box containing one hypodermic needle, and carrying a text that reads in part “LILLY’S ILETIN SYRINGE NO. 280” AND “ELI LILLY & CO. Indianapolis, U.S.A.” The inscription on the needle tube reads “Lilly 35787 / NO. 280 ILETIN SYRINGE / ELI LILLY & CO. INDIANAPOLIS, U.S.A.” Iletin was the Eli Lilly trade name for insulin. The firm filed for a trademark on the term in 1922.
label: Description
content: In the early 1920s, Eli Lilly collaborated with the research team at the University of Toronto to develop the commercial manufacture of insulin. Along with the production of insulin, the company marketed accessories such as insulin syringe kits and testing kits for urine sugar.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Indiana, Indianapolis
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Diabetes
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eli Lilly and Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0498.13
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0498.13
label: accession number
content: 1982.0498
objectType: label: Object Name
content: syringe, insulin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (syringe material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (needles material)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (box material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 3 3/8 in x 1 1/2 in; 2.2225 cm x 8.5725 cm x 3.81 cm
label: Measurements
content: syringe: 8.8 cm x 1.8 cm; 3 7/16 in x 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: box: 3.6 cm x 8.4 cm x 2.1 cm; 1 7/16 in x 3 5/16 in x 13/16 in