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Type of Object

Syringe

Place of Manufacture

Richmond (Va.)

Date of Manufacture

1900-1920

Physical Details

Small metal syringe and needle case with hypodermic syringe and injection tools. Incomplete set. Case is nickel plated has slightly rounded edges and hinged top. Contains one needle, two empty nickel tablet vials, one glass and labeled tablet vial with product remaining, and a glass hypodermic syringe. Syringe has a propeller-shaped grip and line marker, and is marked in volume up to 1 1/2 mils and 25m. Labeled tablet vial marked: "Physician's Sample Hypodermic Tablets, Atropine Sulph. 1/100 gr. John Wyeth & Bro.. Inc.," does not appear organic to set.

Dimensions

2 cm. x 8 cm. x 4 cm.

Medical Subject

Syringes; Injections -- instrumentation

Accession Number

1983.55

Genre

medical equipment

Local Genre

medical artifact

Type

Still Image

Digital Format

image/jpg

Language

eng

Rights

This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.

Collection

Medical Artifacts Collection

Source

Original object: Metal Syringe and Needle Case, VCU Health Sciences Library Medical Artifacts. Special Collections and Archives, VCU Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.

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mar00055.jpg

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