Syringe
notes: label: Description
content: The inscription on this cardboard box reads, in part “PROF. DR. GUIDO’ FISCHER’S / EXTRA STRONG PERFECTION SYRINGE” and “G. R. SCHIMMEL DETROIT, MICH., U.S.A.” Guido Fischer was Director of the Royal Dental Institute of the University of Marburg. Gustave Rudolph Schimmel (1861-1928) was an inventive druggist in Detroit. The “R. & R. Co.” inscription on the side of the tube is that of the Ransom & Randolph Co., a firm in Toledo, Ohio, that offered “The Only Genuine ‘Fischer’ Hypodermic Syringe Made in America.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Gustave R. Schimmel, “Hypodermic Syringe,” U.S. Patent 563,621 (July 7, 1896).
label: Description
content: Gustave R. Schimmel, “Hypodermic Syringe,” U.S. Patent 844,544 (Feb. 7, 1907).
label: Description
content: Guido Fischer, Local Anesthesia in Dentistry (Philadelphia, 1912).
label: Description
content: Ransom & Randolph ad in Hettinger’s Dental News 4 (1921): 47.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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-07007
label: catalog number
content: M-07007
label: accession number
content: 216553
objectType: label: Object Name
content: syringe kit
label: Other Terms
content: syringe kit; Hypodermic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (cap, tip material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (plunger, thumb rest material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: box: 3 1/4 in x 5 3/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 8.255 cm x 14.605 cm x 3.175 cm
label: Measurements
content: syringe: 3/4 in x 4 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 1.905 cm x 10.795 cm x 5.715 cm