Object Details
- A. S. Aloe and Company
- Description
- Syringe with an “ALOE PRECISION / U.S.A.” inscription. Inscriptions on the cardboard box read in part “ALOE PRECISION / Tuberculin Syringe / LUER TYPE” and “Distributed by / A. S. ALOE COMPANY.”
- In 1907, Clemens von Pirquet (1874-1929), an Austrian pediatrician, developed a skin test that put a small amount of tuberculin under the skin and measured the body's reaction. In 1908, Charles Mantoux (1877-1947), a French physician, updated the test by using a needle and syringe to inject the tuberculin.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ca 1950s
- ID Number
- 1981.0895.002
- accession number
- 1980.0895
- catalog number
- 198.0895.002
- Object Name
- syringe, tuberculin
- Other Terms
- Syringe; Hypodermic
- Physical Description
- glass (syringe material)
- metal (syringe material)
- paper (packaging material)
- Measurements
- box: 1 1/2 in x 5 in x 3/4 in; 3.81 cm x 12.7 cm x 1.905 cm
- syringe: 4 1/2 in x 5/8 in; 11.43 cm x 1.5875 cm
- place made
- United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- The Antibody Initiative
- Health & Medicine
- Antibody Initiative: Tuberculosis
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_720943
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-5918-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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