Syringe
name: label: Associated Name
content: Cook Laboratories
label: maker
content: Cook Laboratories
notes: label: Description
content: Cook Laboratories, Inc., a Chicago firm that made bacterial vaccines, introduced the term “Carpule” in 1922, filed for a trademark, and used it for medications designed to be injected hypodermically. Some ads boasted that “In the Cook ‘CARPULE’ System, the mechanical aspects of Dental Anesthesia have been reduced to Scientific Simplicity.” Others described “a whole system of hypodermic anesthesia, perfected and simplified, with the medication in the Carpule—a glass cartridge, which insures its being as pure, accurate and active at the moment of injection as it was at the moment of manufacture.”
label: Description
content: Harvey Samuel Cook (1888-1924) was a physician in Valparairso, Ind. who devised this system while serving with the U.S. Forces in Europe during the First World War. He later obtained several patents on the form and assigned them to Cook Laboratories. One inscription on this example reads “Carpule.” Another reads “N. 107-D COOK LAB INC. CHICAGO.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Ad for “The Cook Carpule System” in The Practical Dental Journal 24 (Dec. 1924): 34.
label: Description
content: Ad in Hettinger’s Dental News 7 (1924): 37.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.291116.558
label: accession number
content: 291116
label: catalog number
content: 291116.558
objectType: label: Object Name
content: syringe, hypodermic
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 5/8 in x 2 in x 7/8 in; 11.7475 cm x 5.08 cm x 2.2225 cm