| Reference Number | MIMM/2009-1/34 |
| Title | Original Record Syringe |
| Date | 1900-1949 |
| Creator Name | Dewitt & Hertz, Medical supply company |
| Description | The blue cardboard box is decorated with gold paint and contains the 20cc syringe. The box has writings: "Original Record" on one long side, and "side nozzle"along with "20cc" on both short flaps. The syringe is made of glass, with a steel plunger and tip. The glass has a blue ridable scale from 2 to 20, and the company logo. The plunger can be extracted by the syringe-steel tip body by rotating the plunger lid to operate the sliding mechanism. Company logo on the plunger's tip.
Original Record syringes were introduced and designed by German makers Dewitt and Hertz in 1906, and they did not leak fluid under the plunger and avoided jamming.
This type of syringes could be easily disassembled and reassembled for sterilisation purposes.
Thanks to its high quality and reliability, dentists and physicians across Europe and United States have used it until plastic disposable ones appeared in the market. |
| Extent | 1 item |
| Dimensions | Syringe: 130mm x 26mm |
| Box: 133mm x 37mm x 37mm |
| Digital Collections | View online in our digital collections |
| Copyright | Free to use under the terms of the Creative Commons Licence Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) |
| Credit Line | Royal College of Physicians of Ireland |
| Object Name | Syringe |
| Term | Injections |
| Hypodermic Syringes |