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Hypodermic Syringe, by Parke Davis & Co. , USA, c. 1900

Inventory Number 48162


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.48162

Subject
Medicine
Item type
Object
Provenance
Associated with Sir Henry Wentworth Acland
Object type
Syringe
Dimensions
Height: 85mm Width: 49mm Depth: 19mm Weight: 82g
Inventory No
48162

Description

Light brown drawstring bag with orange drawstrings containing a matte-silver-coloured rectangular box with rounded corners. The box contains: a metal and glass hypodermic syringe with two, detached, metal needles and four narrow yellow glass tubes stoppered with corks, each filled with small cakes of medication in solid form. The vials contain: morphine sulphate, atropine sulphate, apomorphine, and strychnine nitrate.