Object Details
- Description
- Steel hypodermic syringe with two needles and four glass vials in a leather case. A paper label in one vial reads “SOLUBLE HYPODERMIC TABLETS /... /... /.... / Prepared by / SHARP & DOHME, / CHEMISTS, BALTIMORE, MD.”
- Ref: “A New Hypodermic Syringe,” New England Medical Monthly 10 (1891): 556.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Sharp and Dohme
- Credit Line
- Gift of The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
- Physical Description
- leather (overall material)
- fabric, silk (overall material)
- fabric, velvet (overall material)
- metal, brass (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- fuschia (overall color)
- purple (overall color)
- metal, steel (overall material)
- glass (syringe material)
- cork (syringe material)
- paper (syringe material)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 5.5 cm x 9 cm x 2 cm; 2 3/16 in x 3 9/16 in x 13/16 in
- overall: 2 in x 3 5/8 in x 3/4 in; 5.08 cm x 9.2075 cm x 1.905 cm
- Object Name
- Case
- syringe kit
