Hypodermic Syringe
name: label: maker
content: McElroy, Patrick J.
notes: label: Description
content: Hypodermic syringe with three steel needles. Inscriptions on the graduated glass tube read “SUB-Q No. 2001” and “The Randall Faichney Co. Boston / Pat. July xx 1906 – Aug. 27, 1912.” The label in the lid of the box reads, in part: “The Most Serviceable and Enduring Substance known to Science is our MCELROY’S NEW MINERAL PACKING / LABEL REGISTERED U.S. PATENT OFFICE 1903.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Patrick J. McElroy, “Piston for Hypodermic Syringes, etc.,” U.S. Patent 1,036,672 (Aug. 27, 1912), one-half assigned to the Randall-Faichney Co.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Abbie Alston
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.322660.05
label: catalog number
content: 322660.05
label: accession number
content: 322660
objectType: label: Object Name
content: syringe kit
label: Other Terms
content: Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 3 in x 1 7/8 in; 1.905 cm x 7.62 cm x 4.7625 cm