B-D Insulin Syringe, Dr. Busher's Automatic Injector
date: label: date made
content: after 1932
label: patent date
content: 1932-02-16
name: label: maker
content: Becton, Dickinson and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Herbert Busher, a physician in St Paul, Minnesota, designed a hypodermic syringe particularly for the self-administration of insulin. This example was made by Becton-Dickinson in New Jersey. One label on the cardboard box reads “B-D INSULIN SYRINGE / For use with / 20 OR 40 UNIT INSULIN / BECTON, DICKIN-SON & CO., RUTHERFORD, N. J.” Another reads “DR. BUSHER’S / AUTOMATIC / INJECTOR / PAT. 1,845,O36.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Herbert H. Busher, “Hypodermic Syringe,” U.S. Patent 1,845,036 (Feb. 16, 1932).
label: Description
content: Herbert Busher, “Automatic Hypodermic Syringe for Self Administration of Insulin and Other Uses,” Journal of the American Medical Association 102 (1934): 1152.
label: Description
content: Herbert Busher, “Automatic Hypodermic Injector,” Science 81 (1935): 256.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Rutherford
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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 Eleanor P. Custis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07852
label: catalog number
content: M-07852
label: accession number
content: 223292
label: patent number
content: US1845036A
objectType: label: Object Name
content: syringe, insulin, with automatic injector
label: Other Terms
content: syringe kit; Hypodermic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (plunger material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (barrel material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (tip, force material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (needle material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (injector, automatic needle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 3 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 2.8575 cm x 9.525 cm x 4.445 cm