Syringe
name: label: user
content: McGree, Nancy Barnard Stetson
label: maker
content: MacGregor Instrument Company
notes: label: Description
content: Steel dental syringe with a “VIM-HYPODENT / DeSanno & Hoskins, Inc.” inscription on the glass tube. The MacGregor Instrument Co., in Massachusetts, was offering VIM glass syringes by 1916. DeSanno & Hoskins was a dental supply house in Philadelphia.
label: Description
content: Ref: DeSanno & Hoskins ad in Hettinger’s Dental News (January 1921): 85.
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 University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09235
label: catalog number
content: M-09235
label: accession number
content: 218383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: syringe
label: Object Name
content: syringe, dental
label: Other Terms
content: Hypodermic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (barrel, fenestrated material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (barrel, fenestrated material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (handle, finger rest material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (plunger, thumb rest material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (tip, screw material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 5 1/4 in x 2 3/8 in; 1.905 cm x 13.335 cm x 6.0325 cm