Hypodermic syringe

Made:: 1905-1914 in England

Hypodermic syringe, Record type, glass and nickel plated brass, cased, with medicaments, probably German, 1905-1914

Details

Category:: Therapeutics

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A102075

Materials:: case, brass (nickel plated), syringe, glass, syringe, brass (nickel plated) and ampoule & tube, glass

type:: hypodermic syringe

credit:: Osborne Co.

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Parts

phial; controlled drug; morphine

Glass vial with cork stopper containing approximately 25 'hypodermettes' hypodermic tablets consisting of 1/8 grain of morphine sulphate. Morphine is a powerful analgesic and narcotic but it also has central stimulant actions.