Higgins Obtunding Syringe
notes: label: Description
content: Frank Amando Higgins (1860-1931) was an entrepreneurial graduate of the Philadelphia Dental College who designed a powerful syringe for injecting cocaine for dental purposes. The inscription on the case of this example reads “HIGGINS’ OBTUNDING SYRINGE / Bellevue, Ohio.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Frank A. Higgins, “Hypodermic Power-Syringe,” U.S. Patent 781,283 (Jan. 31, 1905).
label: Description
content: Higgins Dental Manufacturing Co. ad in American Journal of Dental Science 36 (Jan. 1905): viii.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Bellevue
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.291116.693
label: catalog number
content: 291116.693
label: accession number
content: 291116
objectType: label: Object Name
content: obtunding syringe
label: Object Name
content: syringe, dental