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Mouse Cage Laboratory Apparatus (Florey), Mid 20th Century

Inventory Number 22686


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.22686

Item type
Object
Provenance
Lent by Lady Florey in 1969.
Physical material
Metal
Cork
Cotton Wool
Dimensions
Diameter: 22mm Height: 105mm Weight: 30g
Inventory No
22686
Accession Number
1969-124/18(D2)

Description

Perforated grill-mesh tube with a cork at one end and a cotton wool stopper at the other. Apparatus devised and used by Lord Florey for holding a mouse whilst injecting. It is shown in use in the well-known photograph of Florey and Kent injecting a mouse.