Stainless-steel syringe with a “TUBEX-Wyeth-TUBEX” inscription. The Tubex system, developed by the Wyeth company during World War II, consisted of a drug-filled glass cartridge with attached sterile needle that fit into a reusable metal syringe. Wyeth introduced the system in 1957, claiming that it “SAVES TIME, WORK, MONEY to the Modern Hospital.”
Ref: Wyeth ad in American Journal of Nursing 57 (1957).
Inscriptions on this item read “HUNTER’S / NEW LIGHTNING / SIFTER / SIZE O / DISTRIBUTED BY / J. H. DAY & CO. / CINCINNATI & NEW YORK CITY.” Jacob M. Hunter, inventor of a convenient flour sifter, established The Hunter Sifter Manufacturing Co. in Cincinnati in 1877. J. H. Day (1851-1909) bought the machinery department of the firm in 1887, and organized the J. H. Day & Co.
Ref: Jacob M. Hunter, “Improvement in Flour-Sifters,” U.S. Patent 218,121 (Aug. 5, 1879).
Syringe with an “I. R. COMB Co. GOODYEAR 1851” inscription. The India Rubber Comb Co., of New York, was established in 1854, three years after Charles Goodyear obtained a patent for vulcanizing rubber.
Ref: Chas. Truax & Co., Price List of Physicians’ Supplies (Chicago, 1890), p. 496.
Conical glass vessel with graduations, pouring spout, and foot. An inscription on the black hard rubber foot reads “NEIDLINGER BROTHERS, NEW YORK / C. E. KEMBLE’S PATENT.”
Ref: Chambers E. Kemble, Brooklyn, New York. Patent Number: D27258, June 29, 1897.