Object Details
- Description
- This metal case contains two metal needles, and a graduated glass syringe with an inscription that reads in part “Lilly / ILETIN SYRINGE.” Iletin was the Eli Lilly & Co. trade name for insulin. The inscription on the case reads “Lilly / ASEPTIC.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Eli Lilly and Company
- date made
- ca 1930
- Credit Line
- Gift of Eli Lilly & Company; Accession 111796 (1930)
- Physical Description
- glass (plunger material)
- glass (barrel material)
- glass (tip, force material)
- metal (handle, finger rest material)
- metal (needles(2) material)
- metal (tip, screw material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7/8 in x 3 1/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 2.2225 cm x 7.9375 cm x 3.175 cm
- Object Name
- syringe kit
- syringe kit, insulin
- Other Terms
- syringe kit; Hypodermic
