Hypodermic syringe

Made:: 1960-1970 in England

maker:: Everett Medical

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Hypodermic syringe, 1ml, for insulin, glass and chrome plated metal, boxed, by Everett, England, 1960-1970

Details

Category:: Therapeutics

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A617808

Materials:: syringe, glass and syringe, metal (chrome plated)

Measurements:: box: length 30 mm
box: width 139 mm
box: height 26 mm

type:: hypodermic syringes

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Hypodermic syringe for insulin, England, 1960-1970

Hypodermic syringe, 1ml, for insulin, glass and chrome plated metal, by Everett, England, 1960-1970

Diabetes is a condition where the pancreas cannot produce insulin, or enough insulin, to break down sugars in the body to pass to the cells to release energy. People with diabetes used metal and glass hypodermic syringes like this one to inject doses of insulin. Today syringes are made from plastic.