Syringe
name: label: maker
content: India Rubber Comb Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This item resembles the Long Pipe Uterine Syringe offered by Chas. Truax & Co. The “I. R. COMB CO. GOODYEAR 1851” inscription in the Truax catalog refers to the India Rubber Comb Co., a New York firm that was established in 1854, three years after Charles Goodyear obtained a patent for vulcanizing rubber.
label: Description
content: Ref: Chas. Truax & Co., Price List of Physicians’ Supplies (Chicago, 1890), p. 496.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ferris State College, School of Pharmacy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.312142.162
label: catalog number
content: 312142.162
label: accession number
content: 312142
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Syringe
label: Object Name
content: syringe
label: Other Terms
content: Syringe; Drug Administrators
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: rubber, hard (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in; x 33.655 cm x 5.715 cm