Hypodermic Needle
name: label: maker
content: Antidolor Manufacturing Company, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Steel hypodermic needle with a “R. B. Waite” inscription. Ralph Britain Waite (1871-1965) was a graduate of the Philadelphia Dental College who established the Antidolor Mfg. Co. in Springville, N.Y., in 1891, and promoted cocaine as a pain killer for dental purposes.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ad for Dr. R. B. Waite’s Antiseptic Local Anesthetic in The Dental Era (1909).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: 2012.0165.140
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0165.140
label: accession number
content: 2012.0165
objectType: label: Object Name
content: needle
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 1/4 in; x 2.54 cm x .635 cm