Syringe
name: label: maker
content: Parke, Davis and Company
notes: label: Description
content: This steel syringe with a “PARKE DAVIS & CO.” inscription on the tube seems to be an example of the nickel-plated, all metal “Sterilizable Dental Syringe” that was on the market by 1903.
label: Description
content: Ref: “A New Sterilizable Hypodermic Syringe,” Parke, Davis & Co., Therapeutic Notes 10 (1903): 59.
label: Description
content: Parke, Davis & Co., A Dental Manual of Therapeutics and Materia Medica (Detroit, 1905), p. 59.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
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-09231
label: catalog number
content: M-09231
label: accession number
content: 218383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: syringe
label: Other Terms
content: Hypodermic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (barrel material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (handle, finger rest material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (tip, screw material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 4 1/8 in x 1 7/8 in; 1.5875 cm x 10.4775 cm x 4.7625 cm