Syringe
notes: label: Description
content: Mendel Nevin (1881-1950) was a Russian Jew who emigrated to the United States. In 1911, after having graduated from the New York College of Dentistry, he established the Novocal Chemical Manufacturing Co., to produce procaine (Novol) and other anesthetics that he had developed. The inscription on this steel syringe reads “NOVOCOL CHEMICAL MFG. CO.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Ad for Procaine (Novol) in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences 167 (June 1924), p. 28.
label: Description
content: “DR. MENDEL NEVIN, MANUFACTURER, 69,” New York Times (Nov. 11, 1950), p. 13.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: W. Harry Archer, D.D.S.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07127
label: catalog number
content: M-07127
label: accession number
content: 218892
objectType: label: Object Name
content: syringe
label: Other Terms
content: Hypodermic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (barrel, fenestrated material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (handle, finger rest material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (plunger, thumb rest material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (tip, screw material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 4 1/8 in x 2 1/8 in; 1.5875 cm x 10.4775 cm x 5.3975 cm