Syringe
name: label: maker
content: Randall-Faichney Company
notes: label: Description
content: The inscription on this metal syringe reads “THE RANDALL FAICHNEY CO. INC. / BOSTON, U.S.A." The Randall Faichney firm was offering its Imperial all-metal dental syringe by 1905, and its Novo Imperial by 1916. This example was probably used for Procain, an anesthetic substance that was synthesized by Alford Einhorn, a German chemist, in 1905. Under the trade name Novocain, it advertised for medical purposes as early as 1906.
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 Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.291116.400
label: accession number
content: 291116
label: catalog number
content: 291116.400
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Syringe
label: Other Terms
content: Syringe; Hypodermic
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 2 1/8 in x 3/4 in; 11.43 cm x 5.3975 cm x 1.905 cm