| Reference Number | MIMM/2021-8/122 |
| Title | Belcroy Tube Feeder |
| Date | 1925-1975 |
| Creator Name | John Bell and Croyden Ltd.; 1908-; dispensing chemists & pharmaceutical products manufacturer |
| Description | Glass Belcroy tube feeder for premature infants. Marked with the words: "THE BELCROY FEEDER" and a measurement scale of 1-6 tea spoons. In original box, the lid of which reads: "For Premature Infants/Will overcome the difficulty of Feeding the small baby./THE "BELCROY" TUBE FEEDER/Cavendish A Brand/JOHN BELL & CROYDEN,/Dispensing & Analytical Chemists,/Wigmore Street, LONDON, W.1." Also a sticker attached reading: "Supplied by/D.J.ROWE, M.P.S./Chemist & Optician/73, Woodhouse St./PORTADOWN". |
| Extent | 2 items |
| Dimensions | Tube: 109mm (length) x 20mm (max. diameter) |
| Box: 185mm x 34mm x 30mm |
| 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 | Baby-Feeder |
| Box |
| Term | Bottle Feeding -- Instrumentation |
| Infant, Premature |