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Type of Object
Syringe, irrigation
Place of Manufacture
Boston (Mass.)
Date of Manufacture
1900-1910
Physical Details
Stainless steel bladder syringe with large barrel and metered, detachable plunger and detachable tip fitting. Barrel is 3cm in diameter and makes a snug fit with plunger unit, also of thick stainless steel. Barrel is labelled, "Matchless, Randall Faichney Co., Boston" and also stamped with the number 97, which appears on the plunger body as well. Provides grip for two fingers and a lever with incremental markings up to 4 approximately every 2cm, for a total length fully extended of +/- 8.5cm.
Dimensions
6.5 cm. x 24.4 cm. x 5.6 cm.
Medical Subject
Irrigation -- instrumentation
Accession Number
1986.153.5
Genre
medical equipment
Local Genre
medical artifact
Type
Still Image
Digital Format
image/jpg
Language
eng
Rights Statement URL
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: Bladder Syringe, VCU Health Sciences Library Medical Artifacts. Special Collections and Archives, VCU Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
File Name
mar00020.jpg