Syringe
name: label: maker
content: Novocol Chemical Manufacturing Company, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Mendel Nevin (1881-1950) was a Russian Jew who emigrated to the United States. In 1911, after having graduated from the New York College of Dentistry, he established the Novocal Chemical Manufacturing Co., to produce procaine (Novol) and other anesthetics that he had developed. An inscription on the barrel of this steel syringe reads “NOVOCOL CHEMICAL MFG. CO. INC. N.Y.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Ad for Procaine (Novol) in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences 167 (June 1924), p. 28.
label: Description
content: “DR. MENDEL NEVIN, MANUFACTURER, 69,” New York Times (Nov. 11, 1950), p. 13.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
setName: label: See more items in
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-07129
label: accession number
content: 218892
label: catalog number
content: M-07129
label: accession number
content: 218892
objectType: label: Object Name
content: syringe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in x 3/4 in; 10.795 cm x 6.35 cm x 1.905 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/4 in x 2 3/8 in x 5/8 in; 10.795 cm x 6.0325 cm x 1.5875 cm