Very unusual and pocket hypodermic syringe in plain metal by Mathieu, circa 1860
€220
Circa
1860
Country of manufacture
France
Description
This is a very unusual pocket hypodermic syringe, complete with its long and screwable protective cap, made a plain metal with a needle in gilded brass.
The instrument is signed “Mathieu”, so is French, datable circa 1860-1870.
The piston has no graduation, which is also quite unusual even for the early morphine or hypodermique syringe.
This synrige is close of the first form of the Pravaz synrige made by Charrière in 1853 and now preserved at the Medical History Museum at Lyon.
The little rarity measures 8,2cm lenght with it cap.
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Le Zograscope
Established by Alexandre Piffault in 2014 and based in Paris at 5 rue de Condé, 75006, very close to Odéon, Le Zograscope specializes in antique and rare books in Science, Medicine and Technology, and rare antique instruments in the same fields. We have especially a strong interest in early and continental microscopy, early and special mathematical/drawing instruments, medical and surgical instrument, and rare technology.
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