Syringe
notes: label: Description
content: Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915) was a German-Jewish physician whose laboratory, in Frankfort, tested compounds, some of them newly synthesized, in search of an effective treatment for syphilis. Sahachiro Hata (1873-1938), a Japanese bacteriologist working in Ehrlich’s laboratory in 1909, found that the re-cently synthesized Arsphenamine did the job. This substance was soon available from Hoechst AG under the trade name Salvarsan (aka Ehrlich Compound 606). In 1909, Ehrlich won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his contributions to immunology. This syringe with a “Thessico” inscription on the tube was designed for the intravenous, intramuscular and subcutaneous injection of Salversan.
label: Description
content: Ref: “‘606’ is Renamed. Dr. Ehrlich’s Blood Specific to be Put on Market as ‘Salvarsan’,” New York Times (Nov. 27, 1910), p. C4.
label: Description
content: Surgical Supply Co. ads for Thessico Salversan Syringes in American Medicine 17 (1911).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09234
label: catalog number
content: M-09234
label: accession number
content: 218383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: syringe
label: Other Terms
content: Hypodermic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (barrel material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (plunger, palm rest material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (plunger, palm rest material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (tip, screw material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 5 5/8 in x 1 3/4 in; 2.54 cm x 14.2875 cm x 4.445 cm