Syringe
date: label: date made
content: 1890-1897
name: label: maker
content: Ford, William F.
notes: label: Description
content: Steel hypodermic syringe incorporating ideas suggested in 1886 by George Roe Lockwood (1861-1931), a young physician then working at the New York Hospital. The “W. F. FORD / 315 5TH AVE. / S.I. CO. N.Y.” inscription in the lid of the case is that of William Fraser Ford (1820-1897), a surgical instrument maker from England who worked at this address in the 1890s.
label: Description
content: Ref: George Roe Lockwood, “A New Hypodermic Syringe,” New York Medical Journal (April 24, 1886); reprinted in Medical Directory of the City of New York (1886).
label: Description
content: W. F. Ford, Illustrated Catalogue of Surgical Instruments and Appliances (New York, n.d.), pp. 86-92.
label: Description
content: Ford obituary in New York Times (Nov. 4, 1897), p. 7.
label: Description
content: “Dr. G. R. Lockwood,” New York Times (March 8, 1931), p. 28.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.291116.695
label: catalog number
content: 291116.695
label: accession number
content: 291116
objectType: label: Object Name
content: syringe, dental