Syringe
notes: label: Description
content: The Dentinol & Pyorrhocide Company was established in New York City in 1907, as the sales and distribution arm of the National Dental Company of Newark, New Jersey. The business shut down in the early-1930s. This steel syringe with a “DENTINOL EQUE WAY” inscription was designed to treat pyorrhea (aka periodontitis) by flooding dental pockets with Dentinol.
label: Description
content: Ref: Dentinol & Pyorrhocide Co. ad in The Pacific Dental Gazette (Dec. 1912).
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 University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09218
label: catalog number
content: M-09218
label: accession number
content: 218383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: syringe
label: Object Name
content: syringe, dental
label: Other Terms
content: Hypodermic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (plunger, thumb rest material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 5 1/8 in x 2 3/8 in; 1.905 cm x 13.0175 cm x 6.0325 cm