Object Details
- MacGregor Instrument Company
- Description
- Plastic rack with 28 steel hypodermic needles, and inscriptions that read "'VIM' FORSBECK NEEDLE RACK / FOR GROUP IMMUNIZATION" and "MACGREGOR INST. CO. / NEEDHAM, MASS. U.S.A." Filip C. Forsbeck (d. 1940) was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the University of Chicago Medical School who spent his brief career as an epidemiologist.
- Ref: Filip C. Forsbeck, “An Outfit for Group Immunization Including an Automatic Syringe and a Needle Rack,” American Journal of Public Health (19xx): 1407-1409.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Orange County Health Department
- before 1980
- ID Number
- 1980.0851.06
- catalog number
- 1980.0851.06
- accession number
- 1980.0851
- Object Name
- needle rack
- needle, syringe, vaccine
- Physical Description
- metal (syringes material)
- ceramic (tray and rack material)
- Measurements
- tray of needles: 1.5 cm x 12.1 cm; 9/16 in x 4 3/4 in
- rack: 2.5 cm x 13.8 cm; in x 5 7/16 in
- overall: 3.2 cm x 13.8 cm; 1 1/4 in x 5 7/16 in
- overall: 1 3/4 in x 5 1/2 in; 4.445 cm x 13.97 cm
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Needham
- used
- United States: Florida, Orange
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- The Antibody Initiative
- Health & Medicine
- Antibody Initiative: Infectious Disease, Allergy, and Immunotherapy Collections
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1347082
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-d501-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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