Object Details
maker
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
date made
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
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_720943