Wilcox-Jewett High-Pressure System Obtunder
name: label: maker
content: Lee S. Smith & Son Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Glass and rubber syringe in a wooden box with a label that reads in part “The Wilcox-Jewett OBTUNDER” and “DESENSITIZES TEETH BY ‘PRESSURE ANASTHESIA FOR THE PAINLESS/ EXCAVATION OF CAVITIES, GRINDING TEETH FOR CROWNING AND THE IMMEDIATE EXTIRPATION OF THE PULP” and “Sole Agents / LEE S. SMITH & SON / PITTSBURGH, PA. U.S.A.” This device (the word obtunder means “that which blunts”) was designed to inject cocaine into the gums of dental patients.
label: Description
content: Ref: Amos A. Wilcox and Marcellus Jewett, “Dental Instrument,” U.S. Patent 780,146 (Jan. 17, 1905).
label: Description
content: Amos A. Wilcox and Marcellus Jewett, “Dental Instrument,” U.S. Patent 780,147 (Jan. 17, 1905).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
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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-07115
label: accession number
content: 218892
label: catalog number
content: M-07115
objectType: label: Object Name
content: syringe
label: Object Name
content: case
label: Object Name
content: syringe kit
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 7 3/4 in x 1 3/16 in; 8.255 cm x 19.685 cm x 3.01625 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 7 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in; 2.8575 cm x 19.05 cm x 8.255 cm