Syringe
notes: label: Description
content: The Koch syringe for hypodermic injections was designed for treatment of tuberculosis. The form, which used a rubber ball rather than a piston, was on the market by 1891. Robert Koch (1843-1910) was a German physician, professor of hygiene at the University of Berlin, and recipient of the 1905 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
label: Description
content: Ref: Frank Woodbury, “The Koch Hypodermic Syringe,” The Medical Bulletin 13 (1891): 69-70.
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-06579
label: catalog number
content: M-06579
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 (needle material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (plunger material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 1 5/8 in; x 11.43 cm x 4.1275 cm