Hypodermic Syringe
name: label: maker
content: Becton, Dickinson and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Glass syringe with a “B-D YALE INSULIN / Becton Dickinson & Co.” inscription on one side, and “USE U-40 ONLY” on the other. Becton Dickinson was advertising LUER syringes and YALE-LUER needles by 1920, noting that they were made in the same plant, measured by the same micrometer, and guaranteed to fit. This example was made after the discovery and manufacture of insulin in 1921.
label: Description
content: Ref: Becton Dickinson ad in American Journal of the Medical Sciences 165 (1923): 36.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Becton, Dickinson and Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06720.03
label: catalog number
content: M-06720.03
label: accession number
content: 201362
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Syringe
label: Object Name
content: syringe, hypodermic
label: Other Terms
content: Syringe; Hypodermic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (plunger material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (barrel material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (handle, finger rest material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (tip, force material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 5/8 in; 7.62 cm x 1.5875 cm