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Title |
Dr. Busher's Automatic Injector with B-D Insulin Syringe |
Object Name |
Injector, Automatic |
Object ID |
01:03.050 |
Description |
Metal device in broken brown box with paper instructions; no needle on syringe. |
Date |
1951 |
Dimensions |
H-1 W-1.625 L-3.75 inches |
Material |
Metal, Cardboard, Paper |
Made |
Becton, Dickinson and Company |
Search Terms |
Automatic injector Diabetes Endocrinology Injections Insulin Medical instruments and apparatus Syringes |
Provenance |
Dr. Michael Somogyi (1883 - 1971) was an Austro-Hungarian- born professor of biochemistry at the Washington University and Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, who prepared the first insulin treatment given to a child with diabetes in the USA in October 1922.[1] Somogyi showed that excessive insulin makes diabetes unstable in the Chronic Somogyi rebound of which he gave his name, and first published his findings in 1938. |