Hypodermic Syringe
notes: label: Description
content: The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, which transferred this hypodermic syringe to the Smithsonian in 1953, termed it a Pravaz instrument with a glass barrel, leather piston, and metal mounting, made ca. 1860. Charles Pravaz (1791-1853) was a French physician who added a fine hollow needle to the end of a syringe in 1853 and used it for intra-articular injection. This example may have been made in Paris, by Collin or Charriere.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
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-06583
label: catalog number
content: M-06583
label: accession number
content: 197642
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Syringe
label: Object Name
content: syringe
label: Other Terms
content: Syringe; Hypodermic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (barrel material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (plunger material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (tip, force material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/8 in x 1/2 in; 8.5725 cm x 1.27 cm