Hypodermic Syringe
name: label: maker
content: George Tiemann and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Hypodermic syringe with steel frame, graduated glass barrel, gold needle, cylinder containing “SOLUBLE HYPODERMIC TABLETS” of atropine sulphas, and a “TIEMANN & CO.” inscription in the lid of the case. George Tiemann was selling hypodermic needles in the 1850s, and may have been the first to do so in the United States. This example probably dates from the turn of the century.
label: Description
content: Ref: George Tiemann & Co., Armamentarium Chirugicum (New York, 1879), pp. 68-74.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06588
label: catalog number
content: M-06588
label: accession number
content: 197642
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Syringe Kit
label: Other Terms
content: Syringe Kit; Hypodermic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (bottle material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (barrel, fenestrated material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (needle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (barrel, fenestrated material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (plunger material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (tip, force material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 3 3/8 in x 1 3/4 in; 1.905 cm x 8.5725 cm x 4.445 cm