Syringe
notes: label: Description
content: Steel syringe with an “A. HIGGINS. BELLEVUE, O. / PAT. PEND.” inscription. This seems to be an early example of the Obtunding Syringe devised by Frank Amando Higgins (1860-1931), an entrepreneurial graduate of the Philadelphia Dental College, and intended for injecting cocaine for dental purposes.
label: Description
content: Ref: Frank A. Higgins, “Hypodermic Power-Syringe,” U.S. Patent 781,283 (Jan. 31, 1905).
label: Description
content: Higgins Dental Manufacturing Co. ad in American Journal of Dental Science 36 (Jan. 1905): viii.
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 Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.291116.401
label: accession number
content: 291116
label: catalog number
content: 291116.401
objectType: label: Object Name
content: syringe
label: Other Terms
content: Hypodermic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (needle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 6 3/8 in x 3 in; 3.175 cm x 16.1925 cm x 7.62 cm