{"id":277,"date":"2010-07-09T21:26:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T21:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmcldev.wpengine.com\/mcgovern\/2010\/07\/09\/thingamajig-glass-syringe\/"},"modified":"2019-08-30T18:02:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T18:02:22","slug":"thingamajig-glass-syringe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/2010\/07\/09\/thingamajig-glass-syringe\/","title":{"rendered":"Thingamajig: Glass syringe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_219\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-219\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/07\/syringe-1200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-219\" title=\"Syringe 1200\" src=\"http:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/07\/syringe-1200.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glass syringe<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nToday&#8217;s Thingamajig comes from the A.M. Autrey, Sr., Collection of Medical Instruments.\u00a0 Here we have a glass and metal syringe and hypodermic needles, nestled comfortably in a padded, satin-lined, case.\u00a0 The metal may be silver.<br \/>\nThe syringe as we know it was invented, based on the earlier development of the fine, hollow, needle, in 1853 by a French orthopedic surgeon named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.general-anaesthesia.com\/people\/charles-pravaz.html\">Charles Gabriel Pravaz<\/a> (1791-1853), for treatment of aneurysms.\u00a0 The first use of the new device to administer anesthetic is attributed to a Scot, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.general-anaesthesia.com\/people\/alexander-wood.html\">Dr. Alexander Wood<\/a> (1817-1884), in the same year.<br \/>\nEarly syringes had to be cleaned and reassembled one at a time, and carried a constant risk of cross-contamination and infection in the years before asepsis was well-understood.\u00a0 Glass syringes with interchangeable parts, which could be sterilized in large batches, were finally invented by Chance Brothers glassworks of England in 1946.\u00a0 The disposable, single-use, pre-sterilized, syringe and needle that we use today did not appear until 1953.<br \/>\nRead more:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syringe\">&#8220;Syringe&#8221;<\/a> on Wikipedia.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chanceglass.co.uk\/?p=history\">Chance Brothers<\/a>, a brief timeline.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.discoveriesinmedicine.com\/Ra-Thy\/Syringe.html\">History of the syringe<\/a> at Discoveries in Medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Thingamajig comes from the A.M. Autrey, Sr., Collection of Medical Instruments.\u00a0 Here we have a glass and metal syringe and hypodermic needles, nestled comfortably in a padded, satin-lined, case.\u00a0 The metal may be silver. The syringe as we know it was invented, based on the earlier development of the fine, hollow, needle, in 1853 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/2010\/07\/09\/thingamajig-glass-syringe\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thingamajig"],"authors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}